Llamitas Quotes & Sayings

It's didn't take a genis tactician to see that failure was imminent, Alyss more powerful that Arch had supposed. He would have to focus on his contingency plan and let the Glass Eyes attack on Wonderland fizzle out
a circunstance mildly disapointing, but not worrisome. Such a strategist was the king that he had a contingency plan for his contingency plan, and even, if circunstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.
— Frank Beddor

But what the measured prose of psychiatrists and the carefully calculated statistics of social scientists rarely capture is the experience of inner struggle. These "significant changes" do not occur automatically. In fact, they must often fight against our resistance. In this sense, midlife is a drama more worthy of a playwright than a scholar. We are characters in the play, caught at the opening of the second act, and we do not know what will happen next. — Mark Gerzon

Better to do nothing than to engage in localized acts whose ultimate function is to make the system run more smoothly. The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on. People intervene all the time, "doing something"; academics participate in meaningless "debates," etc.; but the truly difficult thing is to step back, to withdraw from it all. Those in power often prefer even "critical" participation or a critical dialogue to silence, since to engage us in such a "dialogue" ensures that our ominous passivity is broken. The "Bartlebian act" I propose is violent precisely insofar as it entails ceasing this obsessive activity-in it, violence and non-violence overlap (non-violence appears as the highest violence), likewise activity and inactivity (the most radical thing is to do nothing). — Slavoj Zizek

Where is the integrity in telling the team they "must have all this done by this date" when you haven't asked the team if it is even possible? — Pollyanna Pixton

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Let's fight against corruption for a better India — Rahul Gandhi

- 'My lord, if a man cannot express his honestly held views in the Central Criminal Court, perhaps you can advise me where else he is free to state that which he believes to be the truth? — Jeffrey Archer

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. — Franz Grillparzer

You will have to look at the tape. Actually, you could burn the tape. It's not even worth looking at ... We just have to move on to next week. If we just get the next one we will be fine. — Terrell Suggs

Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value. — John Wooden

If you accept failure as learning,
it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success. — Martin Zwilling

You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot. — Woody Harrelson

When a woman brings something up, then doesn't have much to say about it, she's got a lot to say about it." "Then — Nora Roberts