As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.
-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.
It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where it resides; it has duration yet no beginning or end. Something emerges, though through no aperture - this refers to the fact that it has reality. It h...
Whales follow the whale-roads. Geese, roads of magnetized air. To go great distance, exactitudes matter. Yet how often the heart that set out for Peru arrives in China, Steering hard. consulting the charts the whole journey.
A person tends to believe whatever is repeated over and over, whether it is true or not.
How much blood will it take to make them stop? How many more children must die?
Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse.
That’s the problem with any ‘simple truth’—it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.
Nothing is illegal so long as you correct it before the SEC catches it.
You know what—gyms make the largest chunk of their profit from clients who pay their monthly dues on auto-pay but never bother to show up and use the gym. The DVD-rental companies make a good chunk of their profits from late fees; the credit-card c...
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives yo...
He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.
I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.
Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.
The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing
When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.