Nicholas Drumm Quotes

Won't get done by looking at it! ~ David Anderson

It is so much easier to try to help a six-month-old child or a six-year-old child than it is a 16-year-old troubled kid. ~ Nicholas Kristof

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994) ~ Gene Hackman

Assume that you live in a town with two hospitals - one large, the other small. On a given day 60 percent of those born in one of the two hospitals are boys. Which hospital is it likely to be? ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't know the odds of an earthquake, but I can imagine how San Francisco might be affected by one. This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can't know) is the central idea of uncertainty. Much of my life is based on it.

You can build an overall theory of decision making on this idea. All you have to do is mitigate the consequences. As I said, if my portfolio is exposed to a market crash, the odds of which I can't compute, all I have to do is buy insurance, or get out and invest the amounts I am not willing to ever lose in less risky securities. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

And it was told that as soon as Poseidon saw the young Goddess, who looked no more than eighteen years of age, by human reckoning, passion immediately overwhelmed him. Unlike all the other Goddesses & Nymphs of the Sea, Aphrodite was not naked. She wore a huge girdle around her slender waist which covered her breasts & her hips as well as her crotch & buttocks. And, thus, instead of impaling her with his trident, Poseidon was overcome with curiosity as to what she hid beneath her girdle. He thus introduced himself as the King & Sheriff of the Seas & told the young Goddess that, as such, no secrets should be kept from him by all those who wished to live in the sea. He would therefore request that she removed the girdle to show him what she hid beneath it. ~ Nicholas Chong

Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle; that's the intellectual environment of the Internet. BACK ~ Nicholas Carr

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. ~ Nicholas Sparks

Clay pushed his body off him and mumbled another apology - because, enemy or not, when you hit a man in the nuts with a magic hammer the least you could say was sorry. ~ Nicholas Eames

You're choosing to let life control you, instead of the other way around. That's the big secret. You choose the kind of life you want to live. ~ Nicholas Sparks

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We do not realize the full extent of the difference between near and far futures. Yet ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Meeting you and falling in love with you was an experience I would relive a thousand times in a thousand different lives, if I was ever given that chance. ~ Nicholas Sparks

Now, any other man in Cedar Dell would catch hell for wearing a pink shirt. Not Nicholas Sutherland. He'd still ooze masculinity if he wore pink sneakers and socks with purple pom-poms. ~ Emily March

One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed that is part of their job, but advocacy is also getting governments to step up to the plate. They can also give more voice to those who don't have one. ~ Nicholas Kristof

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Worry about today, and tomorrow when it becomes today. ~ Nicholas Miller

It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works. ~ Nicholas Stern

Hallowell, in his very savvy book Connect, cites the 1979 Alameda ~ Nicholas Boothman

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things. ~ Nicholas Sparks

Shall we go dance the hay, the hay?
Never pipe could ever play
Better shepherd's roundelay. ~ Nicholas Breton

I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About. ~ Nicholas Dettmann

Mom says it's because she has PMS.
Do you even know what that means?
I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome ~ Nicholas Sparks

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. ~ Nicholas Sparks

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be. ~ Nicholas Sparks

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop. ~ Nicholas Negroponte

Door and she starts on the EEOC paperwork. Frankly, she's asking for far less than ~ Nicholas Sparks

And thus it was a right old shambles as anyone could see. Call it Chaos, if you like, the state of affairs when Love went wrong. And everyone wanted to know who the culprit was, who had stolen what rightfully belonged to Hephaestus. And as Zeus was non-commital in the matter, Hera naturally suspected him as the culprit. But the Goddesses agreed that the baby when born, would naturally resemble his father. And thus, when Priapus was born, the culprit would be exposed. ~ Nicholas Chong

The Ukraine is still under Russian influence, even if they did give us independence. Ethnic Russians number 22% of our population. The facts remain they will control us economically. We will continue to owe them monetarily for the natural gas, the petroleum and all other industrial tools we need. After they've exhausted our scant resources and we have run up large bills, they will just walk right back in and take us over again. Monitor it closely in the years to come, Nicholas, you will see I am right. It could be easy to disregard this movement of mine, if it weren't for the queer twists and turns history takes from time to time. ~ Nicholas Anderson

What the hell is this stuff?" he muttered, frowning at the oily spot on the linen cloth. "Pearlman slathered it on me this morning."
"It's macassar oil. Gentlemen use it to keep their hair neat. Nicholas used it," she added pointedly.
"Well, tomorrow he's giving it up. I smell like a rotten apple."
"You do not. And I think it looks rather nice."
He sent her an incredulous look. "I look like an otter. And everything I put my head against gets greasy."
"That's why someone invented the antimacassar," she told him, almost smiling.
"The-aha!" He laughed as he made the connection. "Of course. First they invent something stupid, then something ugly to make up for it. We live in a wondrous age, Annie. ~ Patricia Gaffney

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven. ~ Nicholas Monsarrat

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it. ~ Nicholas Kristof