Rodrik Trilemma Quotes & Sayings

Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee. — Gautama Buddha

No plan survives first contact with the enemy. What matters is how quickly the leader is able to adapt. — Tim Harford

You could block things from your mind for years at a time. You could make them go away because you know that if you let them in, the pain could nearly kill you. — Diane Chamberlain

Executive assistant. "Mrs. Albrecht, how are you today?" "Very well. I just got here and thought maybe I had missed you." "Nope. I just got here too." "Come in, please." The house had a two-story entry area — Michael Connelly

America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value. — Barack Obama

When I have diarrhea I sit backwards on the toilet, because I like to face my enemy before I destroy it. — Sarah Palin

All men live enveloped in the whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. — Herman Melville

The sublime beauty was almost hidden withing the castle walls. She believed that the treasured things in life were often hard to find - a pearl in an oyster shell, a kind word in the heat of the moment. — F.C. Malby

I don't want to walk out that door and lose what we found in this room. — Christina Lauren

Children are the future of a nation. If the children are intelligent, the country will be prosperous.

Thai proverb — Elaine Russell

The Illusion of Control — Russ Harris

Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill. — George MacDonald

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art. — Baltasar Gracian