Mark Holmquist Quotes & Sayings

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist. — Allan Sloan

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. — Neil Peart

Cancer changes your life," a patient wrote after her mastectomy. "It alters your habits. ... Everything becomes magnified. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded — Jodi Picoult

As a matter of fact, no other language in the world has received such praise as the Lithuanian language. The garlands of high honour have been taken to Lithuanian people for inventing, elaborating, and introducing the most highly developed human speech with its beautiful and clear phonology. Moreover, according to comparative philology, the Lithuanian language is best qualified to represent the primitive Aryan civilization and culture. — Immanuel Kant

No one is entertained by economics. — Michael Moore

You have to be a great lover to be a beloved. — Debasish Mridha

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth ... — Thomas Moore

[Christianity is] the most ... perverted system that ever shone on man. — Thomas Jefferson

There's nothing wrong with you Ray, your only trouble is you never learned to get out to spots like this, you've let the world drown you in its horseshit and you've been vexed ... — Jack Kerouac

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade. — Mary Shelley

Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out. — Yaya Toure