Rollo Lawson Famous Quotes & Sayings

No prize , however great can justify an ounce of self deception or a small departure of the ugly facts. ( Notes from Underground) — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them. — Guy Kawasaki

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises. — John Calvin

A blind ingenuity goes nowhere — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

One of the comforts of firing a big gun during a siege must be the satisfaction of watching the results at long range. Inside a tank or behind an M107, a smudge of smoke against a building can be marked off against a map coordinate. The blood and shattered bones at the other end of the trajectory have no physical contact with the gun. But Randal and I were driving towards the other end of the trajectory, back to west Beirut, where the casualty statistics marked the other side of the concave mirror through which armies fight their wars. — Robert Fisk

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover

You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before. — Jason Aaron

It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely to be utterly lost not only to history but the family following them. Of course this is the fate of most souls, reducing entire lives, no matter how vivid and wonderful, to those sad black names on withering family trees, with half a date dangling after and a question mark. — Sebastian Barry

Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies. — Jean Chatzky

What disturbs and compels about pornography is not the sex, which is always a snooze, but that the medium addresses every social issue in the absolute wrong way. Not long after any social event or trend, a pornographic response emerges. It will be incredibly creepy and wrong headed, an underbelly view of public life via the worst excesses of capitalism in which the answer to every social problem is the commodification of desire. — Jarett Kobek

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them. — Greg Boyle

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to WalMart, so be it. — Maynard James Keenan