Larry Wall Quotes

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

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• Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • World
  • Art
  • Politics

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Think
  • Find

• We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Support
  • Never
  • Finding

• I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Look
  • Ordinary

• I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Time
  • Destiny
  • Opportunities

• Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Happiness

• I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

  

  Oliver North
  • America
  • United States
  • Ever

• Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt … we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Friends
  • Members
  • Radical

• Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn’t spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. We went down that path once, and it brought us to ruin.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Time
  • Food
  • Path

• Take from my head the thorn-wreath brown! No mortal grief deserves that crown. O supreme Love, chief misery, The sharp regalia are for Thee Whose days eternally go on!'For us, - whatever's undergone, Thou knowest, willest what is done, Grief may be joy misunderstood; Only the Good discerns the good. I trust Thee while my days go on.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Good
  • Done
  • May

• The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Moral

• A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Music
  • Long
  • Live

• You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• Have you ever noticed that there are no Maytag user groups? Nobody needs a mutual support group to run a washing machine.

  

  Jef Raskin
  • Support

• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Funny
  • Justice
  • Dress

• All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

  

  Susanna Clarke
  • Books
  • Doors
  • Wardrobes

• I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Feels

• Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

  

  Larry Wall