Jono Grondel > Jono's Quotes

“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”
― Brigham Young

“Art has no right answer. The best we can hope for is an interesting answer.”
― Seth Godin, The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“A coward judges all he sees by what he is.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.”
― Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

“Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.”
― Jack Donovan, The Way of Men

“Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Curious the small and lesser fates that join to lead a man to this. The thousand brawls and stoven jaws, the clubbings and the broken bottles and the little knives that come from nowhere. For him perhaps it all was done in silence, or how would it sound, the shot that fired the bullet that lay already in his brain? These small enigmas of time and space and death.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot