Sageman Terrorism Quotes & Sayings

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I. — Karl Liebknecht

Read a verse of Homer and you can walk the walls of Troy alongside Hector; fall into a paragraph by Fitzgerald and your Now entangles with Gatsby's Now; open a 1953 book by Ray Bradbury and go hunting T. rexes. Ursula Le Guin said: "Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time," and she's right, of course. The shelves of every library in the world brim with time machines. Step into one, and off you go. — Anthony Doerr

Attempting to use a biological agent against your enemy while avoiding its effects on you is like trying to use a grenade by holding onto it and hoping all the shrapnel flies in the direction of the person you want to kill. — John Scalzi

I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun. — Hamdi Ulukaya

The overall effect of the GEA will be to increase unit production costs, diminish competitiveness, cut the rate of return to capital in key sectors, reduce employment, and make households worse off, — Ross McKitrick

Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be, — Candy Chang

Remember: There's a reason the fairy godmother gave Cinderella two glass slippers. — Michael Callahan

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize. — Pauline Oliveros

I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general neglect of education in those who need it most, the people of fashion. What can be expected where those who have the most influence have the least sense, and those who are sure to be followed set the worst examples? — George Berkeley

Don't you see how much you've fucked me up already? You're the only thing I want. I feel like a limb torn from you. Yours, yours, yours. "Don't — Alessandra Hazard

Writing is successful schizophrenia because I'm paid to hear voices in my head. — Jodi Picoult

If there was one thing thing that defined adolescence it was hysterical laughter. You never laughed like that again. In adolescence the brutal realisation that the world and life were completely absurd made you laugh until you couldn't catch your breath, whereas in later life it would only result in a weary sight. — Antoine Laurain

Do you realize a fraction of the awful things you have let me in for? How on earth am I to remember whether I go in before the chef or after the footman? I shan't have a peaceful minute while I'm in this place. — P.G. Wodehouse

I threw away everything that might make me happy. It's what I did. It's what I was good at. Not being happy. I was fucking awesome at being miserable. — Mercy Celeste

Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve. — Vaclav Smil