John Sandford Quotes
I've always had a fascination with the technical and small-scale aspects of life - the national media seem to have more interest in the sweeping political views.
Quotes to Explore
-
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
-
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
-
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-
The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
-
The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
-
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
-
My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
-
Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
-
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
-
We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
-
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
-
We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
-
If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
-
I'm a very lucky girl.
-
You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
-
I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
-
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
-
Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
-
Industries that make goods and services that people have to buy, regardless of economic circumstances, are bound to do well whatever the economic conditions.
-
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
-
If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water.
-
Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.
-
We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.
-
I've always had a fascination with the technical and small-scale aspects of life - the national media seem to have more interest in the sweeping political views.
