Scott Westerfeld Quotes
We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.
Scott Westerfeld
Quotes to Explore
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
Patricia Highsmith
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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
Adam Braun
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Barack Obama
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The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
Wayne Dyer
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The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances E. Willard
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Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.
Jesmyn Ward
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The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.
Barack Obama
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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
Anthony Trollope
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
Earl Weaver
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We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.
Scott Westerfeld
