Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
H. L. MenckenYou and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. TrumanThe more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin DisraeliIt’s a very confusing era that we’re in.
Clint EastwoodJim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.
Robert KiyosakiPeople are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise PascalIt does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TolkienWhen making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel JohnsonRemember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
Tennessee WilliamsPeople seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob DylanI’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.
Elvis PresleyPart of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.
Barack ObamaI think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor RooseveltI left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.
Henry David ThoreauThe effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Edmund BurkeDon’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
Lou HoltzIt’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
Dan QuayleThere were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.
Michelle ObamaAnd no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.
Steve JobsThe business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
Taylor SwiftI don’t have all the answers.
Joel OsteenI really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.
Jim CarreyIt is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
Winston ChurchillSomeone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Stephen HawkingMy parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.
Stephen CurryGive every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William ShakespeareFinality is not the language of politics.
Benjamin DisraeliIf I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.
Joe BidenI suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
Charlie ChaplinCommon sense is not so common.
VoltaireLife is a matter of really tough choices.
Joe BidenPart of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
Jordan PetersonI’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
Karl LagerfeldAs president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.
Michelle ObamaFaith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David ThoreauI don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
David BowieTo prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
PlatoOf two evils, choose neither.
Charles SpurgeonNever give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
ConfuciusA leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda MeirI don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.
Virat KohliThe first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
VoltairePerhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston ChurchillBeautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.
Christopher HitchensI don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark TwainCertain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinTake care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard ShawI’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.
Taylor SwiftI don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
Elon MuskMost gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.
Terry PratchettTo see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
ConfuciusWhenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.
Billy GrahamAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin DisraeliListen to many, speak to a few.
William ShakespeareKnowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.
Bruno MarsAs is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?
Nipsey HussleWe misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.
Robert KiyosakiBuy the ticket, take the ride.
Hunter S. Thompson