Posts in the category “quotations”

Like so many psychological conditions, sociopathy exists on a severity spectrum.
Patric Gagne, Time magazine

“Learning from other people’s mistakes is a lot less painful than learning from your own.”
Tim Harford

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Dread Pirate Roberts,

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

William Butler Yeats

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
Harry S. Truman

“I have always lived on waterfronts. If you live on the edge of an enormous mountain or an enormous body of water, it’s harder to think of yourself as being so important. That seems useful to me, spiritually.”
Heather McHugh

Two great quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt, born on this date in 1884:

“A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.”

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

“I write to annoy God, to make Death laugh. I write because I can’t get it right. I write because I want every woman in the world to fall in love with me.”
Charles Simic

“There is absolutely no reason why, out on the street, today, a civilian should be carrying a loaded weapon.”
Ronald Reagan, Sacramento, CA, May 2, 1967

“[T]he impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
Annie Dillard