Peter Trofimov Quotes & Sayings

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results. — Gordon Bethune

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me. — Bryce Harper

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail. — Alan Moore

It seemed so simple in a lot of ways, to use a basic melody to pull away from myself. To ease the pain and hide my feelings deep within a metaphor that only I understood. I couldn't have foreseen that my quiet and dark night of the soul would start me down a path of expression through song. — Mike Ericksen

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. — Sylvia Plath

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved. — Roger Scruton

We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The last line of Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is addressed to the American people and their congressmen. "As they deal with me and my people, kindly, generously, and justly, so may the Great Ruler of all nations deal with the grand and glorious nation of the United States of America." It's clever to imply that if the U.S. swallows up her little country, God will smite it. As I reread the last sentance of a book written by a Hawaiian queen wh was taught to read and write by American missionaries, her final thought seems emblematic of how hierarchical Hawaiians adapted to Christianity. Jehovah, "the Great Ruler of all nations," is the highest high chief in the universe. — Sarah Vowell

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The good quarterbacks in this league, if you're not playing your best, sometimes will win a game for you — Kerry Rhodes