“When the ground is poor, the ox works listlessly; rich soil tires but there's satisfaction then in toil.”— Martial, amazon.com
“The other gods are far away or cannot hear. Or are non-existent, or care nothing for us; But you are here, and visible to us, Not carved in wood or stone, but real. So to you we pray.”— Hymn to a Macedonian King entering Athens, Anthony Everitt, amazon.com
“One choice is to pretend that this isn't your fault, to act like you're a victim, to pretend that you were misunderstood; to pretend you didn't make the choices you did. If you do that, this decision is going to haunt you for the rest of your life. The other choice, the better choice, is to be hones…”— Eric Greitens Navy SEAL, amazon.com
“You might ask why is that so important? Well, again that's a rule of psychology. Just as you think better if you array knowledge on a bunch of models that are basically answers to the question, why, why, why, if you always tell people why, they'll understand it better, they'll consider it more impor…”— Charles Munger, old.ycombinator.com
“War took a man out of that circle of regular life and made a season of its own.”— Charles Frazier, amazon.com
“Diogenes liked the metaphor of a chorus conductor. They hit the note a little high so that the others can get the right note.”— Various Authors, amazon.com
“We are all entitled to our opinions and religious beliefs, but we are not entitled to make shit up and then use the shit we made up to oppress other people.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“If a man was an excellent piper he must be worthless as a man. Otherwise he wouldn't be so good a piper.”— Plutarch, William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“The culture there had been institutionalized. You had record executives there who've been sitting in their office because of one act–'But that's the guy who signed Mötley Crüe!' Seriously? That was twenty five years ago...There was nothing fresh, there was no excitement, it was just doing the same s…”— Jay-Z, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, amazon.com
“When David Stern sold the NBA television contract to NBC in 1990 for $600 million, he had his assistant call the owners to give them the good news: A boss who was so secure that he let his deputies make the celebratory calls to the owners.”— David Halberstam, amazon.com
“I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't gotten to be a per…”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.”— Caitlin Moran, amazon.com
“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it—or my observation of i…”— John Green, Hazel's Dad, amazon.com