#list

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#bad #disaster #every #facing #good

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ↗

— Epictetus

#listen #mouth #much #speak #twice

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ambiguities #avoided #been #experience #idealism

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #am #ancient #asked #assigned

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#bizarre #caricature #course #dichotomy #does

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#begin #beset #choice #his #least

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric. ↗

— Edward Said

#almost #could #european #every #homer

Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes. ↗

— Joe Sakic

#get #going #hometown #into #many

Silence is so freaking loud ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#loud #owen #sara-dessen #silence #listening

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#answer #ask #closely #follow-up #get