Markopolos Website Quotes & Sayings

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form
or a species
will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap. — Eckhart Tolle

I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.' — Peter O'Toole

Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. — Martin Amis

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. — Douglas Coupland

It is that perfection of God by which he is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises. — Louis Berkhof

Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you. — Pema Chodron

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it. — Margaret Fuller

You're in a bad mood,' Skulduggery said. 'I understand. I do. You're saying things that you don't really mean. It's OK.'
'I'll kill you both.'
'Hurtful things said in the heat of the moment. We're not going to hold it against you, Bison. We're all friends here.'
Valkyrie nodded. 'We love you Bison.'
'We do,' Skulduggery agreed. 'You're our favourite Necromancer. You're the cuddly one.'
'Shut up,' Dragonclaw said. 'Both of you just shut up. — Derek Landy

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. — Dean Wesley Smith

Football at it's best is a game of beauty and intelligence. — Ron Greenwood

After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions ... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one. — Burk Uzzle