James Cullin > James's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
― Peter Drucker

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.”
― Jeff Bezos

“The best diet is the one you don't know you're on.”
― Brian Wansink, Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

“There's only one thing that's strong enough to defeat the tyranny of the moment. Habit.”
― Brian Wansink, Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

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

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.”
― Ronald Reagan

“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
― Charles de Gaulle

“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”
― Mark Twain (Author)

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.”
― Douglas Coupland, JPod

“Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.”
― Douglas Coupland

“Doubt can only be removed by action.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Maybe I wanted to find more rigorous ways of thinking. We’re talking now about the earliest writing I did and about the power of language to counteract the wallow of late adolescence, to define things, define muddled experience in economical ways. Let’s not forget that writing is convenient. It requires the simplest tools. A young writer sees that with words and sentences on a piece of paper that costs less than a penny he can place himself more clearly in the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.”
― Don DeLillo

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom’,”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

“Who cares whether they laugh at us or insult us, treating us as fools or criminals?” Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf. “The point is that they talk about us and constantly think about us.”
― Volker Ullrich, Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939