Susan Orlean Quotes

I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension.

Susan Orlean

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MePerfectNowWayNeverAlways

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PersonOwnAdvantageHappensMost

I've had enough rejection for multiple lifetimes.

Matt Letscher

EnoughRejectionHad EnoughMultiple

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Michael Caine

EducationWisdomHeartMy OwnOwn

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

Steve Case

PassionVisionPerspectiveBelieve

There's been rumors going round. I never confirm any of them.

Tommy Ramone

NeverRumorsGoingRoundBeenThem

I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did.

Tom Clancy

MeStartThinkThoughtSomeoneDown

Cyber espionage is very lucrative for economic benefit to a nation.

Dmitri Alperovitch

CyberNationEconomicBenefitVery

You got to keep all your weaknesses away, and my weakness is women. I love women too much. Which has definitely road-blocked me. I just try my best to channel my energy to other things and remain focused while making my work as fun as everything else.

Bow Wow

WorkLoveWomenBestFunMe

When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.

Anohni

LifeLoveSpiritualHurtYouPerson

In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in China casually, or for a social advantage - quite the opposite.

Philip Yancey

FaithTogetherChurchYouPrivilege

Ensuring the respect of international humanitarian law and principles is one of the key areas necessary to establish accountability chains.

Peter Maurer

RespectLawAccountabilityKey

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.

Lewis Thomas

LifeTimeFaceEarthEvolutionNow

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