Eric Thomas Quotes

Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor.

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• There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Successful
  • Petty

• I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Hope
  • Here
  • Belong

• It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• 'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • More
  • Because
  • Brothers

• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Water

• Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?

  

  Alice James
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Chance

• We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Important
  • Kids

• I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Feeling
  • Kind
  • Religious

• Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Paradise
  • Slaves
  • Admiration

• Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Force
  • Organize
  • Impotence

• One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Forever
  • Doubt
  • Remains

• I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Time
  • Idea

• The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Knowledge
  • Goal
  • Progression

• You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes.

  

  Theresa May
  • Daughter
  • Behave
  • Responsibilities

• I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Singing
  • Stuff
  • Engineers

• There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.

  

  Claude Simon
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Representation

• Just to take a couple steps back historically, Korea, as you can see, is located among what we call big countries. And historically we've always been the victim of numerous invasions and whatnot.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Couple
  • Steps
  • Victim

• Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate; and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Victim
  • Victor
  • Whining