Murrue Ramius Quotes & Sayings

The paradox of vocation. We think that passion comes first, that our desire is primary; but if we are truly called, the work always comes before we are ready. We will have to act in spite of feeling unprepared. — Jeff Goins

You ought to serve on the platform you run on. — Chuck Grassley

He was some sort of boxing champion," she told me the night she took me out to celebrate my graduation. "He was always punching someone in the nose."
"Macho," I said.
"No," she said. "It was the clarity of expression that appealed to him. — Melissa Bank

And when you write a poem within the accepted poem-form, making it sound like a poem because a poem is a poem is a poem, you are saying "good morning" in that poem, and well, your morals are straight and you have not said SHIT, but wouldn't it be wonderful if you could ... instead of sweating out the correct image, the precise phrase, the turn of a thought ... simply sit down and write the god damned thing, throwing on the color and sound, shaking us alive with the force, the blackbirds, the wheat fields, the ear in the hand of the whore, sun, sun, sun, SUN!; let's make poetry the way we make love; let's make poetry and leave the laws and the rules and the morals to the churches and the politicians; let's make poetry the way we tilt the head back for the good liquor; let a drunken bum make his flame, and some day, Robert, I'll think of you, pretty and difficult, measuring vowels and adverbs, making rules instead of poetry. — Charles Bukowski

Taleb's hero, on the other hand, is Karl Popper, who said that you could not know with any certainty that a proposition was true; — Malcolm Gladwell

Education is how to help the person who's lost a job. Education is how to make sure we've got a workforce that's productive and competitive. — George W. Bush

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing — Abraham Lincoln

I felt it was time for there to be a document of what we sound like now. — Bruce Hornsby

With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body. — Thomas Malory

There is a tension in the Bible between justice and mercy, between the Old Testament and the New Testament. And the New Testament says you can never be good enough: goodness is the thing, and you can never live up to it. The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time. — Paul Kalanithi

I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days! — Douglas Booth

We have become the new american slaves: but there is a revolution coming. It is a revolution of individual liberty. It will free us without violence. It will begin with the self. It will spread to the workplace. It will turn our corporate masters into our servants. It will free us of government's tyranny. The revolution will spread to all corners of the nation, and at last, we shall be free. — Gerry Spence

The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people. — Naomi Oreskes

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. — Emma Goldman

When you think you know Everything, you know NOTHING! When you think you know Nothing.. You become KRISHNA- THE UNKNOWN ! — True Krishna Priya