Yerger 2019 Quotes & Sayings

He was right. I was letting myself get distracted, like a rabbit doing math problems instead of looking for foxes. — Brandon Sanderson

There is only one terminal dignity - love. — Helen Hayes

All power structures, by their very nature, eventually get taken over by psychopaths. Almost all governments in the world have been taken over by gifted psychopaths who have a great command of human psychology and use normal people to their advantage. This race of pathological deviants can't feel compassion, they have no conscience. They have an insatiable need for power - and they rule the world. — Douglas Preston

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut — Albert Einstein

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine. — A.E. Housman

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. — Elizabeth McCracken

He's doing something in Surbiton next. Or Serbia, one or the other. — A. L. Kennedy

I won't push you for it anymore, okay. We'll stick to clever conversation.
A bit of this and that won't hurt.
Yeah, it won't hurt you. It'll drive me bloody crazy. — Melina Marchetta

I don't know how satisfied you can be when we still have a losing record. We feel like we're definitely playing better. The reality is we're about to find out. Our toughest West Coast trip is normally the circus trip in November. This year, they're flip-flopped. We did well on the first West Coast trip 3-3. Now, this is a big one. All these teams Dallas, New Orleans, Phoenix, Utah, Denver, Sacramento and the Los Angeles Clippers are quality teams. Each team is really playing well. It's going to be a big challenge for us. — Scott Skiles

I remembered those psychologists who said psychopaths made the world go around. They meant it: society was, they claimed, an expression of that particular sort of madness. — Jon Ronson

Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his older counterpart. And I, being young myself, took these pronouncements of Henry's very seriously. I doubt if Milton himself could have impressed me more. — Donna Tartt

This is life. It's not a dress rehearsal. If we don't do this now, we may as well start planning our own funerals. — Alastair Reynolds