Peter Thiel Quotes

When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.

Peter Thiel

Quotes to Explore

I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

Nancy Farmer
- Live
- America
- Environment
I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

Larry Wilcox
- Mind
- Doubt
- Regret
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

Larry Elder
- People
- Home
- American
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

Zadie Smith
- Writing
- Father
- Think
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Victor Hugo
- Man
- Child
- Blessed
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

Octavio Paz