Andre Hakala > Andre's Quotes

“I still love the person he is—loyal and kind—but we’re on different paths, and that is okay.”
― Maria Jane, Perfect

“There was no guarantee of the outcome, but mastering your fear would greatly increase the odds of survival.”
― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison

“Employees are savvy. They know the difference between disguising and remedying unfairness at work”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

“One thing that became very clear during my own war service is that those who are actively taking part in war-like activities very seldom hate their former enemies. The reverse is the case with a great respect developing among the veterans, even if they happened to be on opposing sides.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

“Being afraid to live life on your own terms…ain’t really living.”
― Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge

“She understood that Aimée’s passion for preparing fine food, her mother’s passion for literature and her father’s passion for the cosmos matched her own passion for music.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

“Gardening is easier than it is often made out to be.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Exactement," said Vidal. "We surmise the killer limp off with use of a cane. The lights man must have seen the interloper, made to intervene, and was beaten by the cane and then garroted with it by the ropes, making lights to go out."
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― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

“Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.”
― Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case

“My parents are going to kill me!"
"That seems rather harsh...”
― Garth Nix, Sir Thursday

“Das Unglück des Menschen rührt daher, daß er nicht still in seinem Zimmer bleiben will, dort, wo er hingehört. Sagt Pascal. Aber Pascal”
― Patrick Süskind, Das Parfum

“The lay reader only wanted to have the illusion of understanding and to catch a few buzzwords to throw around at cocktail parties.”
― Richard Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave to him, as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability. It seems to presume perfect wisdom and virtue in the one order, and the greatest weakness and folly in the other. Where the masters, however, really perform their duty, there are no examples, I believe, that the greater part of the students ever neglect theirs. No discipline is ever requisite to force attendance upon lectures which are really worth the attending, as is well known wherever any such lectures are given. Force and restraint may, no doubt, be in some degree requisite in order to oblige children, or very young boys, to attend to those parts of education which it is thought necessary for them to acquire during that early period of life; but after twelve or thirteen years of age, provided the master does his duty, force or restraint can scarce ever be necessary to carry on any part of education. Such is the generosity of the greater part of young men, that, so far from being disposed to neglect or despise the instructions of their master, provided he shows some serious intention of being of use to them, they are generally inclined to pardon a great deal of incorrectness in the performance of his duty, and sometimes even to conceal from the public a good deal of gross negligence.”
― Adam Smith