Reservd Quotes & Sayings

I like basketball, but please don't ask me basketball questions because I've got a lot to learn. — Ross Perot Jr.

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing. — Abraham Maslow

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring, — Oliver DeMille

To me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your heart where there is hope and faith and try to embrace that rather than crush it. I've spent so many years trying to crush those feelings of hope, and I certainly succeeded for quite a while. — Dave Gahan

Even today, the bigger the city, the better. That's why I live in New York. — Paul Smith

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living properly. The numinous authority of form enjoys the prerogative of being able to tell me 'You must'.
It is the authority of a different life in this life. This authority touches on a subtle insufficiency within me that is older and freer than sin; it is my innermost not-yet. In my most conscious moment, I am affected by the absolute objection to my status quo: my change is the one thing that is necessary. If you do indeed subsequently change your life, what you are doing is no different from what you desire with your whole will as soon as you feel how a vertical tension that is valid for you unhinges your life. — Peter Sloterdijk

You can go from having all your stuff together and really feeling good about yourself to really figuring you can't run a lick. — Jeff Burton

I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they're not doing ... I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn't have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it's all over the Internet. — Nelly

And the answer, said the judge. If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. He loves games? Let him play for stakes. This you see here, these ruins wondered at by tribes of savages, do you not think that this will be again? Aye. And again. With other people, with other sons. — Cormac McCarthy

The greatest known power in the universe is the resilience of man coupled with his intellect. He tinkers and tests and fights through to solutions. — James Patterson

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. — Madeleine Albright

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical. — Terry McMillan

Feminism, as writer Marie Sheer remarked in 1986, "is the radical notion that women are people," a notion not universally accepted but spreading nonetheless. — Rebecca Solnit

Separately we might have sunk, but together we moved beyond bloodlines and nationalities and backgrounds and formed a vessel that somehow stayed afloat. — Ann Howard Creel