Common Ground famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

  • The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

  • Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

  • He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

  • Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles … they all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

  • Jamie : "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me.". Landon : "Including me?". Jamie : "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!".

  • Life is a thing of many stages and moving parts. What we do with ease at one time of life we can hardly manage at another. What we could not fathom doing when we were young, we find great joy in when we are old. Like the seasons through which we move, life itself is a never-ending series of harvests, a different fruit for every time.

  • You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

  • I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches.

  • I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.