Wtf Gif Quotes & Sayings

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem. It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced - in a word, insane. — Frank Herbert

In reaching toward Emma, I'd risked everything - was risking it again, every day - but in doing so I had grasped and pulled myself into a world once unimaginable to me, where I lived among people who were more alive than anyone I'd known, did things I'd never dreamed I could do, survived things I'd never dreamed I could survive. All because I'd let myself feel something for one peculiar girl. — Ransom Riggs

Don't give up in your goals in life, I'm a perfect example of how dreams can come true. — Paula DeAnda

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. — Arthur Hailey

You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It's a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too. — Tim Hudson

The alternative Kennan described as the "particularized" approach. It was "skeptical of any scheme for compressing international affairs into legalist concepts. It holds that the content is more important than the form, and will force its way through any formal structure which is placed upon it. It considers that the thirst for power is still dominant among so many peoples that it cannot be assuaged or controlled by anything but counter-force." Particularism would not reject the idea of joining with other governments to preserve world order, but to be effective such alliances would have to be based "upon real community of interest and outlook, which is to be found only among limited groups of governments, and not upon the abstract formalism of universal international law or international organization. — John Lewis Gaddis

I don't know why I didn't carry around pictures and poems all the time before I came here. — Ally Condie

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day. — Bryant McGill

Until we teach our children that they need to be concerned with how they look and with what other people think, they dance. — Brene Brown

The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body. — Conn Iggulden

I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one ... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it. — Taissa Farmiga