Thomas Erikson Quotes & Sayings

Men must know their limitations. — Clint Eastwood

Those eager to grasp opportunities for their betterment, do attract 'good luck'. — George S. Clason

What are you now, Jaz Bond? Double-oh-Six, the chhakka secret agent? — Manil Suri

Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit. — Maureen Johnson

The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size. — Robert Benchley

I remember that I did feel, starting my mini-tour, the resident anxiety you develop when you know you've been too lucky; at any moment, maybe next Tuesday afternoon, I would be stricken with something unbearable. — Carol Shields

Don't get too hung up on working with any one person, because it's like a game of checkers where dudes are hopping over one another all the time, shouting, "King me, motherfucker!" It's checkers, yo. But with a lot of money at stake. — Ice-T

He knew too much to be an optimist, and not enough to relieve his pessimism. — Louis De Bernieres

Unfortunately, we reach for the camera so quickly that we end up taking photos of experiences that we've hardly even experienced. — Martin Boroson

. . . the authors had developed indices that could be employed to measure the state of a civilization, to determine if society was healthy, in decline, or perhaps even dead. The indicators keyed in on everything from the accumulation of refuse to declines in everyday civility. They looked at how a society treated its most vulnerable citizens; examined a culture's architecture, gauging its scale in relation to humans and the surrounding natural world. One of the primary indicators, however, was a measure of the ability of a society's citizens to listen to each other and truly hear what was being said. It evaluated by gradations the ability of individuals to stand motionless for prolonged periods, receptive to their surroundings. — Robert H. Lieberman

You're never going to find a guy who's exactly like you - first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room. — Rainbow Rowell

Anything worth having is worth paying that price for. — Jeff Olson

What is not possible is not to choose. — Jean-Paul Sartre

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. — Honore De Balzac