Posts in the category “quotations”

Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.
– Alice Waters

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
David Hume

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side (1956)

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

If you do the right thing you may not always (or ever) finish first. But if you do the right thing you’ll never be a loser. This is about running. This is not about running.
@coachbennett

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
– Vincent Van Gogh, to his brother Theo, The Hague, October 1, 1882

“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
John Wooden

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
— UCLA Coach John Wooden

Two things, at minimum, that wealth cannot save you from:

• death
• being a piece of shit

Isn’t that sort of wonderful? And amazing? You really cannot buy everything. You cannot buy being an interesting, sensitive, charitable person.
– Robin Sloan