Roy J Plunkett Quotes & Sayings

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. — George W. Crane

Natural disasters are revelatory. The manner in which a society interprets a catastrophe and responds to the chaos exposes many of the accepted truths, prejudices, hopes, and fears of a culture. - Nicholas Shrady, The Last Day — Steve Olson

I would love to have been born in the '60s. — Jake Bugg

In America, your ancestors don't matter so much. You're just you. — Lensey Namioka

Leadership is Idealism in Action. — Sathya Sai Baba

I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty. — Christopher Hitchens

I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments — Susan Beth Pfeffer

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something. — Aaron Paul

Breath; but the dead air seemed to shrivel his lungs, and he dropped his head and dozed till the house was reached. Every effort of will was torture, yet he was called upon continually to make efforts of will. He gave the black he had ridden a nip of trade-gin. Viaburi, the house-boy, brought him corrosive sublimate and water, and he took a thorough antiseptic wash. He dosed himself with chlorodyne, took his own pulse, smoked a thermometer, and lay back on the couch with a suppressed groan. It was mid-afternoon, and he had completed his third round that day. He called the house-boy. "Take um big fella look along Jessie," he commanded. The boy carried the long telescope out on — Jack London

During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them. — Cale Yarborough

Why is your HOW message today more timely than ever?
All progress now depends on How. We have entered the Era of Behavior. Of course our behavior has always mattered, but in today's world, it matters more than ever and in ways it never has before. We live in a more connected and interdependent world. Yet we tend to speak about the world in amoral terms. The single most profound implication of an increasingly interconnected world is that it has rendered us ethically, if not morally, interdependent. — Dov Seidman

Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself. — Jorge Luis Borges

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world. — Jane Green