Ualbany Quotes & Sayings

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three. — Patrick Rothfuss

What fire dies when you feed it? It — David Foster Wallace

Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
Wise foundress of the system of the world,
Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,
Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,
Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,
Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss. — Friedrich Schiller

Economics has accurately been called the science of the single instance. — George F. Will

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture. — Mike Johanns

You're either growing or dying. Stagnation does not exist in the universe. — Steve Siebold

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank. — Remy De Gourmont

Life itself is a moment like this, the soul beat down and held to knowledge: you keep on trudging upward, the goal shifts in and out of sight, always further away than you expected, and the work is hard and unremitting. And the questions are the same as always: What are you doing? Is it the right thing? Should you go back? - Nothing up here but the same answers, stripped bare of all complication: Just walk. Keep hiking. That's all you can do. That is your destiny. — Kim Stanley Robinson

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well. — Jorge Luis Borges

Lucifer, how, after a dozen millennia in Hell, could you possibly lose your way?" the Devil asked incredulously. "Well," the lesser demon began, "It is a rather large place ... — Keith B. Darrell

I have a passion for academic life, a passion for students and for the ability and the narrative of a university to make a difference in the world in which they reside. — Gordon Gee

Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious. — Judy Garland