Naifs Quotes & Sayings

Why do so many children love the idea of being snowed in or shipwrecked, of having to survive on one's own? When I was a child, I was no exception. I wanted to hunt with a bow and arrow like the Stone Age people: to skin deer and build my own shelter. And I desperately wanted a wolf. As we lived in London, my options were limited. — Michelle Paver

The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way we have been doing business for 50 years, and it may well be time to grant the French, Canadians, Germans, Turks, South Koreans, and a host of others their wishes for independence from us: polite friendship - but no alliances, no bases, no money, no trade concessions, and no more begging for the privilege of protecting them. — Victor Davis Hanson

[Obama] was the Harvard Law Review president who never published a word, the community organizer who never organized a thing, the state legislator who voted present.

And then one day came the day when it wasn't enough simply to be. For the first time in his life, he had to do it. And it turns out he can't. — Mark Steyn

Are we unconscious during sleep or merely unable to remember what sleep is like? — Sam Harris

Our relationship with God broadens our opportunities and influence on earth — Sunday Adelaja

It is only through letting our heart break that we discover something unexpected: the heart cannot actually break, it can only break open. When we feel both our love for this world and the pain of this world-together, at the same time-the heart breaks out of its shell. To live with an open heart is to experience life full-strength. — John Welwood

What a privilege and opportunity it is to utterly come to the end of one's hope-not only to run out of answers, but to run out of questions. To be beyond fighting, to come to that suspended animation where we are so confused and so weak that we can neither fight or run. When you come to the end of yourself, you find the beginning of God. And there and nowhere else, you find the answers you seek. You find fulfillment for the longings of your soul. — Max E. Anders

Everyone omes with a label, it's up to you to peel it off. pg.155 Vanishing Acts — Jodi Picoult

That's why the firm foundation of every land must be morality untarnished which, if destroyed, Rome will fall and founder. — Daniel Berzsenyi

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices. — Daniel Kahneman

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith. — Garth Brooks

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We are bonded now. We will face it together. Your destiny is mine as well. We shall live or die together. — Melissa De La Cruz

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play. — Christopher Walken

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak. — Charlie Munger

A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure. — Jennifer Michael Hecht