Richman Poorman Quotes & Sayings

Infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself
navigation, mathematics, science, literature and what not. And history tells of opportunity that came to the slaves who rose to the purple. No man makes opportunity. All the great men ever did was to know it when it came to them. — Jack London

If I failed in what I now designed to undertake, who, save myself, would suffer? — Charlotte Bronte

Mindfulness frees us of forgetfulness and dispersion and makes it possible to live fully each minute of life. Mindfulness enables us to live. — Thich Nhat Hanh

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous. — Richard Holbrooke

Every puppy should have a boy. — Erma Bombeck

You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon. — J.R.R. Tolkien

One morning, I woke to find Chiron gone. This was not unusual. He often rose before we did, to milk the goats or pick fruits for breakfast. I left the cave so that Achilles — Madeline Miller

There are many things I've written that I didn't really understand until a long time later. — Harry Mathews

The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu. — Junior Seau

I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it's Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can't imagine not reading the Russians. — Gordon T. Smith