Posts in the category “quotations”

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

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
David Hume

The only thing better than singing is more singing.
Ella Fitzgerald

Everything not saved will be lost.
Nintendo “Quit Screen” Message

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