Pood Quotes & Sayings

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.
[Blog post, March 12, 2012] — Jim C. Hines

This is the moment - this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That's what our job is. It's not about impressing people. It's not about getting the next job. It's about contributing something. — Benjamin Zander

We must endure, Alyosha. That was the only thing she could say in response to my accounts of the ugliness and dreariness of life, of the suffering of the people - of everything against which I protested so vehemently. I was not made for endurance, and if occasionally I exhibited this virtue of cattle, wood, and stone, I did so only to test myself, to try my strength and my stability. Sometimes young people, in the foolishness of immaturity, or in envy of the strength of their elders, strive, even successfully, to lift weights that overtax their bones and muscles; in their vanity they attempt to cross themselves with two-pood weights, like mature athletes. I too did this, in the literal and figurative sense, physically and spiritually, and only good fortune kept me from injuring myself fatally or crippling myself for life.
For nothing cripples a person so dreadfully as endurance, as a humble submission to the forces of circumstance. — Maxim Gorky

Globally, proving myself working well with Adidas, showing my work could be globally distributed and loved and appreciated and still be challenging. Maybe I'm one of the first people on a larger scale to make more challenging and more unique items. — Jeremy Scott

For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I'm not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much. — Elisabeth Shue

Having a love that was endangered made it all the more precious. — R.K. Lilley

Liberals Love America Like O.J. Loved Nicole — Ann Coulter

There's nothing more uplifting as been an inspiration to others". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Saw you out there in the garden. Looked so damn ... fine," he said, quietly. "Was like I hadta have ya, right then. Bubbled up like ... I dunno, puke or somethin'." Jack chuckled. "You sure have a way with words, D. — Jane Seville

Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy. — Derrick Jensen

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions. — Tom Morello

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life. — Billy Mills

If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive. — Luke Nosek