Paradox The Wrapper Quotes & Sayings

Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes. — Seth Godin

Rand rubbed his hands over his face. His anger had dissipated. I'm sorry, Yelena. I was backed into a corner and I couldn't get out without hurting someone. — Maria V. Snyder

O Day after day we can't help growing older.
Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
Nor pity the flowers fallen. — Wang Wei

Whatever reader desires to have a thorough comprehension of an author's thoughts cannot take a better method than by putting himself into the circumstances and postures of life that the author was in upon every important passage as it flowed from his pen; for this will introduce a parity and strict correspondence of ideas between the reader and the author. Now, to assist the diligent reader in so delicate an affair, as far as brevity will permit, I have recollected that the shrewdest pieces of this treatise were conceived in bed in a garret; at other times (for a reason best known to myself) I thought fit to sharpen my invention with hunger; and in general, the whole work was begun, continued, and ended under a long course of physic and great want of money. — Jonathan Swift

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. — Sun Tzu

If I can't get a permit to carry a gun, then I'll drag it along behind me. Do you need a permit for that too? — Kalle Paatalo

A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper. — Boris Fishman

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith. — Twyla Tharp