Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

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• Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Car

• I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • School
  • Popular
  • Fact

• For the first time I'm free to be myself.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Free
  • Myself

• I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Way
  • Play
  • Like

• A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Successful
  • Plan

• Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Everest
  • Forecast

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Good
  • Want
  • Newspaper

• I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • You
  • Know
  • I Can

• Pain is never permanent.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Pain
  • Never
  • Permanent

• I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Good
  • Want
  • Just

• Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Good
  • Truth

• Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Power
  • Growing

• But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Question
  • Space

• Italy has no colonial past in Iran.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Past
  • Iran
  • Italy

• Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Try
  • Reach
  • Ever

• At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Man
  • Change
  • Period

• It's cool that I'm 20 and am on the cover of the video game. A lot of kids play hockey, and a few get drafted, and only a few get to be on the cover. It's a great feeling.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Game

• Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times. Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life.

  

  Barbara Marciniak
  • Knowledge
  • Choice
  • Liberating

• I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Opportunities
  • Grateful

• One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation?

  

  Eban Goodstein
  • Nation
  • Treasure
  • Established

• The closest you'll get to God, ever, in your existence, is measured by how close you get to yourself. Because your connection with God is you. He created you. That is the ultimate connection you have with God is you.

  

  Haaz Sleiman
  • God

• Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Choice
  • Reasons