I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
BEN BARNESEntrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
JAMES JOYCE -
I won’t date a model, because models are perfect and perfect is boring.
NIALL HORAN -
Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.
BRAD MELTZER -
Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless.
OSHO -
But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
BILLY JOEL -
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
ELISABETH ELLIOT -
Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.
AL CAPONE -
Even the solitude, I’ve actually grown to quite like. I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I’ll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.
KAZUO ISHIGURO -
And then there are songs I cannot listen to, without hearing you.
DAVID JONES -
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It’s always hard to predict what’s coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.
BRAM COHEN -
A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.
BILLY BRAGG -
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR