Schulmann Quotes & Sayings

I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand. — Dev Patel

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. — Marcus Aurelius

On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years. — Ron Currie Jr.

When Schulmann talked, he fired off conflicting ideas like a spread of bullets, then waited to see which ones went home and which came back at him. The sidekick's voice followed like a stretcher-party, softly collecting up the dead. ( ... ) Sound oil policy, sound economics, sound everything. Justice it isn't. (part I, chapter 1) — John Le Carre

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for. — Mary Lou Retton

For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way. — T. R. Pearson

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest ... — Heloise

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book. — Asne Seierstad

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle. — George Brett

There is a question I have learned to ask myself when I am feeling bothered about others: am I holding myself to the same standard I am demanding of them? — The Arbinger Institute

You are not a pawn in the chessgame of life, you are the mover of the pieces. — White Eagle