Leo Champion > Leo's Quotes

“Misfits make some of the greatest accomplishments. People who don't have egos don't make the world go round. They provide fertilizer.”
― Martin Caidin

“If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.”
― Paul Keating

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
― George Washington

“You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they know that if they don't, those who aren't shot will be hanged.”
― Michael Shirley

“Capitalism harnesses human self-interest; socialism exhausts itself trying to kill it.”
― Linda Bowles

“It is increasingly obvious that what we learn in institutions of formal learning do not really play a role in how we find ways of making a living.”
― Karun Philip, Zen and the Art of Funk Capitalism: A General Theory of Fallibility

“The adventurer, by minimum definition, is an individualist. The life of adventure is an unsocial game; therefore in direct contrast with the married, supported life which is nuclear society itself.”
― William Bolitho, Twelve Against the Gods

“As for those with whom you have made a treaty and who abrogate it every time, and who do not fear God;

If you meet them in battle, inflict on them such a defeat as would be a lesson for those who come after them and that they may be warned.

For God does not like those who are treacherous.”
― From the Qur'an

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“I think that writers are made, not born or created out of dreams or childhood trauma- that becoming a writer is a direct result of conscious will. Of course there has to be some talent involved, but talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force- a force so great that the knife is not really cutting at all but bludgeoning and breaking.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre