Stephen Hsu Quotes & Sayings

But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for! — N.H. Kleinbaum

You usually can't just tell people to do what you want and have them do it. — Jennifer Greene

Love is a wonderful, terrible thing — William Shakespeare

Her (Beverly Powers) face was round and sweet, but her eyes were another matter. Whatever sport she'd played, this woman had been a ferocious competitor.
I was profoundly glad I hadn't been having an affair with her husband. — Charlaine Harris

Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends. — Pope John Paul II

I know no way of discounting the doctrine that when you take something you want, and damn the consequences, then you had better be ready to accept whatever consequences ensue. — Wallace Stegner

I read to escape to a more interesting world, not to be locked up in a sweltering prison and find myself vicariously standing among people who are tortured beyond the limits of sanity. — Amy Tan

I sit on my narrow bunk and caress my long yellow toenails and stare at my walls. — Rene Denfeld

In fact their strength, as with over-specialized athletes, is the result of a deformity. I thought it was the same with people who were selected for trying to get high grades in a small number of subjects rather than follow their curiosity: try taking them slightly away from what they studied and watch their decomposition, loss of confidence, and denial. (Just like corporate executives are selected for their ability to put up with the boredom of meetings, many of these people were selected for their ability to concentrate on boring material.) I've — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence. — Jaggi Vasudev

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it. — Norm MacDonald

Despite its prominence now, you don't stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you. — S. Kelley Harrell

Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing. — Edward Herrmann

People check their phone an average of 110x a day. — Jay Baer