Joe Haldeman Quotes

'You were a Jesuit?''Franciscan. We run a close second in being pains in the ass.'

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• When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Honor
  • New
  • Ring

• As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Think

• If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Parent

• The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Relationship
  • Value
  • Person

• Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Design

• Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • American
  • Car

• When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Power
  • Community
  • Myself

• My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • She
  • Father
  • Me

• One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Beginning

• People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Need
  • Create

• The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Real
  • Paris
  • Valley

• I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Long
  • Gucci

• Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

  

  Karen Horney
  • May
  • Deception

• '... You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Hope

• If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. (pg. 140)

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Up
  • War

• The silvery tree opens to an empty sky - maybe it is better that I am not your husband.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Husband
  • Tree
  • Sky

• I've always made weird sounds with my mouth. I've always been fascinated by the sound design, what you can do with your mouth. I was the kid dancing around in third grade on the basketball court. While everyone would be playing sports, I would be jumping around.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Sports
  • Design
  • Weird

• I know the importance of family. I mean, it really completes me as a person. I want lots of children; I want so many children. I look at babies' pictures, and I am like... I love kids.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Children
  • Family
  • Kids

• If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Friend
  • Decision
  • Should

• It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’

  

  Jean Guitton
  • Words
  • Humanity
  • Blow

• Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Words
  • Deeds
  • Deeds And Words

• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Solution

• 'You were a Jesuit?''Franciscan. We run a close second in being pains in the ass.'

  

  Joe Haldeman