Strongbox Self Quotes & Sayings

The perfect Librarian is calm, cool, collected, intelligent, multilingual, a crack shot, a martial artist, an Olympic-level runner (at both the sprint and marathon), a good swimmer, an expert thief, and a genius con artist. They can steal a dozen books from a top-security strongbox in the morning, discuss literature all afternoon, have dinner with the cream of society in the evening, and then stay up until midnight dancing, before stealing some more interesting tomes at three a.m. That's what a perfect Librarian would do. In practice, most Librarians would rather spend their time reading a good book. — Genevieve Cogman

Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly. — Robert H. Schuller

Whatever one may think about the possibility of a designer, the prevailing doctrine - that the appearance of life from dead matter and its evolution through accidental mutation and natural selection to its present forms has involved nothing but the operation of physical law - cannot be regarded as unassailable. It is an assumption governing the scientific project rather than a well-confirmed scientific hypothesis. — Thomas Nagel

It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action. — A.J. Darkholme

Updating passwords and changing them all the time is something I'm involved in. — Christian Slater

The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the equation is that riskier borrowers pay higher interest rates. Ultimate safety - a strongbox full of currency - would avail the banker nothing. Maximum risk - a portfolio of loans to prospective bankrupts at usurious interest rates - would invite disaster. A good banker safely and profitably treads the middle ground. — James Grant

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. — Jean-Paul Sartre

babies' brains build the neural pathways to soothe their upsets every time you soothe them.9 Simply by comforting your baby or toddler when she's upset, you prompt her body to release calming biochemicals and strengthen her future ability to soothe herself - the most fundamental emotional intelligence skill. — Laura Markham

Perhaps her mind is slipping, perhaps she's going off the tracks, perhaps she is coming unhinged. Unhinged, like a broken door, like a rammed gate, like a rusting strongbox. When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside and other things get in that ought to be shut out." ~~Margaret Atwood — Margaret Atwood

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock. — Evan Esar

I was planning a death, not a burglary, but in many ways that just made it easier. Taking a life was, in my experience, a damned sight less complicated than taking jewels from a hidden strongbox. — Michael McClung