Volvo Ocean Race Quotes & Sayings

Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things. — James K. Morrow

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. — Ruth Gordon

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom — Harry Leslie Smith

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things. — Yo-Yo Ma

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. — Lev Grossman

We have in past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague. Now the pressure comes from our biologic success as a species. We have overcome all enemies but ourselves. — John Steinbeck

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. — Alfred De Musset

I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks. — Rumer Godden

Without knowing how to calculate the odds on such matters, it seems improbably to me that God would have whispered the meaning of my life into the ear of some guru or authority. — Sam Keen

The good news was that "biology" turned out to be the magic password for working at the Museum of Natural History, just the way "art history" would at the Met or "trust fund" at the MoMA. — Sloane Crosley