Paul > Paul's Quotes

“The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.”
― Ayn Rand

“Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.”
― Edward FitzGerald

“...he found it where he should have looked first, on the Internet, which is a net indeed, one that can be cast further than the eye can see and be retrieved no matter how heavy the hall, its magical mesh never breaking under the strain but always bringing in the most amazing catch.”
― Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil

“Whatever bro, tell it to the whales”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.”
― Tess Gallagher

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat...”
― Edward Lear

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems