Topolansky Fine Quotes & Sayings

I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all. — Mary Fisher

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it. — Mary Karr

Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter. — Michael Oher

We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that's surrounding me? — Katherine Boo

We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one. — Edmond H. Fischer

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to. — Sue Grafton

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive. — Ralph Fiennes

Being honest to the people around you is the best thing you ever do to them,but expecting the same from them is the worst thing you ever do to yourself — Anonymous

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast. — Tim Meadows

One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice. — Phil Hine

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them. — Steve McConnell

Still, I think it grieves the heart of God when human beings created in His image treat other human beings like filthy rags. — Jonathan Kozol

As a rough rule, it seems that writers fall into two camps. There are those who delight in rousting the truth from its concealment amid pieties and convention. If they must strip-mine the world to expose its hypocrisy, they will do so, even if they leave a landscape barren of hope. Then there are those writers who prefer to remythologize life on earth, finding it rich with strange congruences and possibilities. — Will Blythe

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce. — Phil Ochs