Thorlakson Quotes & Sayings

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control — Anthony Stafford Beer

I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods. — Kelley Armstrong

Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about, it's hyperbole.' Maybe it is ... But I would say is that if you are not concerned that democracy could produce bad people, I don't think you're really thinking this through too much. — Rand Paul

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend. — Seneca The Younger

Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first. — Yasmin Mogahed

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness. — T. J. Stiles

Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them — Richie Sambora

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. — Max Beerbohm

Every writer I know has trouble writing. — Joseph Heller

If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed. — Mencius

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf. — Mark Strand

On this side of the Atlantic, the arrival of a new Woody Allen movie is always greeted with tremors of bliss by filmgoers past the age of 60, with mild curiosity by those in their 50s, with trepidation by those in their 40s, with fear and loathing by those in their 30s, and with complete indifference by anyone younger. An icon to baby boomers, who will never concede that when something is over, it is really over (Clapton, McCartney, Santana, the 1960s), Allen has not made a truly memorable film since Bullets On Broadway back in 1994 — Joe Queenan

Be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you. Be generous in helping the unfortunate and those in distress. But bind to you friends of your own kind. Friends who will encourage you. Stand with you. Live as you desire to live; who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment; and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist. — Gordon B. Hinckley

A man is too insignificant to be preoccupied with his failures. All of the energy he has is required for attending to the loneliness, the pain, the needs of others. — Michael Novak