Eric Liu Quotes
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
-
I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
-
Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
-
The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
-
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
-
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
-
Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
-
I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
-
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
-
On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
-
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
-
If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
-
It's nice to be needed.
-
Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
-
I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
-
You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.
-
We're all human at the end of the day. That's why I look at every person I encounter the same way.
-
You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone.
-
I'm a pretty emotional person.
-
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.
-
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
