Jade Storman > Jade's Quotes

“Do you know the difference between neurotics and psychotics?” He answered before I could speak, “Neurotics build castles in the sky; psychotics move into them.” And”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: a con artist's masquerade

“Asked at one point why he had slain so many of his neighbors, Unruh replied: “I’d have killed a thousand if I’d had bullets enough.”[55]”
― Harold Schechter, Rampage

“Her lack of technological sophistication is evident in her memoir, What Happened, in which she seems to intimate that her private server in Chappaqua was protected from hacking because it was contained in a home guarded by the Secret Service. Hacking a server is done through the internet, not by breaking the glass in a basement window.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

“يشجعوننا على إظهار مشاعر حبنا للإمام بأقصى أشكال التعبير مغالاة، بينما يحرّمون علينا أن نظهر أي تعبير علني عن مشاعرنا الشخصية، وأعني الحب بشكل خاص”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“hey be ur own heck of a person, and dont copy what other people do or say. cause then it just makes u look really bad, then that person who u copyied will get mad at u. so grow up a little”
― greg mortenson

“And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.”
― David Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“Jackson was a land speculator, merchant, slave trader, and the most aggressive enemy of the Indians in early American history. He became a hero of the War of 1812, which was not (as usually depicted in American textbooks) just a war against England for survival, but a war for the expansion of the new nation, into Florida, into Canada, into Indian territory.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

“Apart from stemming consumption, the most intractable puzzle that Paul Ehrlich has encountered is why health decisions about Mother Nature—the mother that gives us life and breath—are made by politicians, not by scientists who know how critical her condition is. “It’s the immoral equivalent of insurance company accountants making decisions about our personal health.” Even”
― Alan Weisman, Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

“There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“People are very bad and very good. A little love goes a long way.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“She grasped the crook and flail with cool hands and sank gracefully to her knees. The High Priest of Amun placed a piece of flatbread imprinted with an ankh, the symbol of everlasting life, upon her tongue. It was gritty, the dough having been sprinkled with sand blessed by all the High Priests before it was baked that morning.”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“Musk delved deeply into how solar cells work and the various compounds that can make them more efficient. He concluded the paper with a drawing of the “power station of the future.” It depicted a pair of giant solar arrays in space—each four kilometers in width—sending their juice down to Earth via microwave beams to a receiving antenna with a seven-kilometer diameter. Musk received a 98 on what his professor deemed a “very interesting and well written paper.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

“When you nationalize the expenditures but privatize the revenue, everything is profit.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

“If you act like you can do something, then it will work.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“But how many more deaths?” Trump asked. “How many more lost limbs? How much longer are we going to be there?”
― Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

“With the memory of Dr. H. H. Holmes still fresh in their minds”
― Harold Schechter, Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

“Intelligence is the ability to collect and report what the documents and witnesses say; judgment is the ability to say what those same facts mean and what effect they will have on other audiences.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

“The absolute truth is a wicked sort of rush. It's far more amusing than any lie. Both have the potential to empower and to hurt, but the truth is emotionally superior. Few people could fault you for it, not when you got ethics on your side. The truth is morally unassailable.

But is has no pity. It is merciless.”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade

“Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

So, let us be alert-alert in a twofold sense:

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.

And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”
― Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all”
― A J Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

“Orde-Lees wrote one night: “We want to be fed with a large wooden spoon and, like the Korean babies, be patted on the stomach with the back of the spoon so as to get in a little more than would otherwise be the case. In short, we want to be overfed, grossly overfed, yes, very grossly overfed on nothing but porridge and sugar, black currant and apple pudding and cream, cake, milk, eggs, jam, honey and bread and butter till we burst, and we’ll shoot the man who offers us meat. We don’t want to see or hear of any more meat as long as we live.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“And YET, I always think, This is my year. This year I’m going to get my shit SO together that I’ll always be able to see the solution to my problems. I’m going to get it so together that I’ll never have to “get it together” again.”
― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody

“Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

“9. Prisoners must genuinely repent of their errors. Anyone who does not acknowledge his sins and instead denies them or carries a deviant opinion of them will be shot immediately.”
― Blaine Harden, Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

“Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

“The happiest moments in our lives are when we are playing just like children, when we are singing and dancing, when we are exploring and creating just for fun.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship

“Primo Levi once said, “I write in order to rejoin the community of mankind.” Reading is a private act, but it joins us across continents and time.”
― Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

“Their paper suggests that hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them, or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly. We tend to overstate and to understate, to glorify the good and ignore the bad in ourselves.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“I know a lot about this subject because I saw a healthy community get built, brick by brick, block by block, neighbor by neighbor, close up. It was the one that I grew up in: St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.”
― Thomas L. Friedman, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations