Slammerkin By Emma Quotes & Sayings

The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks. Carelessness and overconfidence are usually more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. — David McCullough

From this it may be seen at once what is the most important quality a nation must possess when its position in the world compels it to reckon with the waging of great wars. This quality is more than ever, in peace as well as in war, the proof of its fitness to survive. It is the capacity for the speedy development of a large programme. — Ernst Junger

Brahma emerged from the right side of Mahesa, Vishnu from the left and Nilarudra from his heart. In the beginning, intoning AUM, Sadasiva created the universe. Siva is Pranava and Pranava is Siva. — Ramesh Menon

I adore having people over to my home. My number one reason I love that is because I love to see people at ease with each other. — Evangeline Lilly

People think of education as something they can finish. — Isaac Asimov

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing. — Matt Taibbi

Let's not forget, I got divorced. — Larry David

Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead, real painting can be looked at over and over again and each time it has something new. — Igor Babailov

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.
Proverb — Idries Shah

God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another. — Nancy Mairs

I'm way more attracted to character stuff and darker roles. It's just my personality, I guess. — Travis Fimmel

One IGHS member said that, yup, she could hear it, too. Then again, during a dinner conversation earlier in the trip, this same woman heard "Siegfried and Roy" as "Sigmund Freud." The resulting image-Sigmund Freud with flowing hair and tigers and too much men's makeup-haunts me to this day. — Mary Roach

Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric. — Michael Eisner

Fifth, you learn to recognize and question the depression-sowing assumptions governing so much of what you do: — Martin E.P. Seligman

The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair. — Eric Felten