James O'Brien > James's Quotes

“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice—well, then you’re going to get fucked.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Because when we give too many fucks, when we choose to give a fuck about everything, then we feel as though we are perpetually entitled to feel comfortable and happy at all times, that’s when life fucks us.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.”
― dan brown, The Lost Symbol

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“People don't need to be paid to be motivated.”
― Jonah Berger, Contagious: Why Things Catch On

“Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed.”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

“Creepy as hell. You ever see that TV movie about the clown in the sewer?”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Knowledge, he realized, “was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue.”
― Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Everyone loves a conspiracy.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.”
― David McCullough, 1776

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Steve Jobs: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“No great thing is created suddenly.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“The conventional wisdom is often wrong.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything