Jarrod > Jarrod's Quotes

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.”
― Shane Patton

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.”
― Anton Myrer, Once an Eagle

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”
― David Bowie

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

“It was not possible to reason with unreasonable people”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

“That's the problem with this whole country. Fucking vast prosperity. No one has any real problems anymore. Ninety percent of the damn politicians in this town either think there's no war on terror, or if we'd just be nice to these zealots they'll leave us alone. Well, that ain't going to fucking happen. The Huns are circling, and we're sitting around arguing about gay rights and prayer and guns and global warming and all kinds of bullshit. These idiots will eventually wake up to the threat, but by then it might be too late. (Stan Hurley)”
― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures