Shattucks Quotes & Sayings

nothing motivated a person quite as much as the desire for vengeance. — Douglas Preston

Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution. — Richard L. Gordon

Kids aren't political, but around 10 years old, they are beginning to develop the moral grounding that might later, in their teens, develop into their first real political perspectives. — Morris Gleitzman

I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball. — Jermaine O'Neal

Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way. — H. Richard Niebuhr

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it. — Jonathan Dee

They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover. — Sebastian Junger

Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is - in essence - a closet pessimist. — Todd Henry

Some men run out of stories, of conversation, in no time at all. Either so little has happened to them or, more likely, they are incapable of understanding or retaining what has happened to them, and so they soon find themselves with nothing to say. Such a man makes a terrible companion. — John Marsden

You have great athletic directors, you let them run it; you keep yourself informed, but I'm not the athletic director. I'm the president of the university. — Gordon Gee

Maybe, life is a kind of waking dream.
Maybe, it's a double-dream with a false awakening.
Maybe, the dream only becomes lucid and truly luminous given the fuller perspective of life after one's own wake.
Maybe, the pictures never stop.
Doesn't the existence of dreams and higher consciousness during the years of blackouts of a lifetime, whether longer or shorter, give us a valid premise to hope that another highly spiritual state may await our passing? — David B. Lentz