Paul Varjak Quotes & Sayings

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part. — William Shakespeare

The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time. — Aldous Huxley

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. — Victor Hugo

I want to be good at what I do, obviously, and to do that I need to keep my head straight. — Freddy Adu

The meaning of a logically consistent mathematical statement is not subject to interpretation. — Edward Frenkel

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it. — Bill Joy

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. — Chris LeDoux

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more. — Michael Marshall Smith

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance. — Robert Graham

Most of her participation in the United Nations, which [??] history, as I say, I don't take too seriously, because I know how that UN operation works, and it is essentially a facade in which the work is done back in Washington and in the capitals involved, and the people up front are just going through the motions. — William A. Rusher

You know the days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you're getting fat, and maybe it's been raining too long. You're just sad, that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid, and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling? — Truman Capote

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.
Revenge always escalates. — Rob Bell

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck. — Henry David Thoreau

The biggest lesson was that if you were clear about what you wanted as leaders and then let people give it to you without tying their hands behind their backs, you got it. — Carmine Gallo

The Union is what needs defending this year. Government of Enron and by Halliburton and for the Southern Baptists is not the same as what Lincoln spoke of. This gang of Republicans has humbugged us to death on terrorism and tax cuts for the comfy and school prayer and flag burning and claimed the right to know what books we read and to dump their sewage upstream from the rest of us and clear-cut the forests and gut the IRS and promote the corporate takeover of the public airwaves and to hell with anybody who opposes them. — Garrison Keillor