Ned Vizzini Quotes

And when you say the truth you get stronger.

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• The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Me
  • Greatest
  • Tell

• This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Process
  • Alchemy
  • Smith

• You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Together
  • Want

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Light
  • Broken
  • Habit

• When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Couple

• I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Legal

• My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Kind

• 'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Struggle
  • End
  • In The End

• I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.

  

  Vanity
  • Daily
  • Sins
  • Shortcomings

• How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Country
  • Rich
  • Now

• The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Fear
  • Word
  • Educational

• Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Family
  • School

• Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Up
  • Like
  • Kid

• We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Band
  • Present
  • Emotional

• Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Mean
  • Value
  • Competition

• Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Language
  • Speech
  • Capable

• Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Fear

• I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Real
  • Night
  • Fear

• While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

  

  Ray Kroc
  • Important
  • Success
  • Absence

• And when you say the truth you get stronger.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Stronger