Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
Richard Scott Bakker
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
Ian MacKaye
I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
Yves Saint Laurent
If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
Patricia Cornwell
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
Candice Bergen
Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
Dan Phillips
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye
The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
There's nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.
Fat Joe
I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
Jackie DeShannon
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White
When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
Vijay Kumar
The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
Caitriona Balfe
When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
Jennifer Granholm
The perception is I didn't get along with umpires, obviously, and I didn't, on the court. But off the court, we had a good vibe.
John McEnroe
Those men established and raised this franchise to new heights.
Bob Harlan
The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
D. T. Suzuki
Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
William Shakespeare
A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
Richard Scott Bakker