Dave Eggers Quotes

There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they’ve known from birth

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• Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Question

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Turning
  • Hammer

• If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Great
  • Career
  • Me

• Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Never
  • Take

• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • Decision
  • Without

• You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Disrespect

• I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Happy
  • Like
  • Film

• I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Yoga

• Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Grow

• Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Real
  • Character
  • Myself

• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Luck

• In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Day
  • Summer
  • Year

• If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Feet

• If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Change
  • Conflict
  • Global

• If you never give up, you'll be successful.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Never
  • Successful
  • Give Up

• The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Fear

• In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Running

• I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Up
  • Me
  • Blessed

• When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.

  

  Bobby Seale
  • People
  • Real
  • Black

• I thought it was great being the only girl in the room. I loved the attention. After I got used to it, I didn't want to be the only girl in the room. I had no one to talk to.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Great
  • Girl
  • Attention

• There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they’ve known from birth

  

  Dave Eggers
  • People