... desperate times required judicious risk-taking.
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl.
“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
“I don't like lollipops.”
“A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.”
“Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.”
“I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?”
“Dont ever let desperation take the seat of inspiration in you! Always live inspired no matter what! For though something might be wrong somewhere, something is always right somewhere! If you have l...”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with th...”
“On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth.”
“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
“We only have one life (unless youre a cat or a Buddhist) and its often dictated to us by what society tells us we should do. So we normalize and accept the paradox. We glamorize busy, but long to t...”
“The price of success is the risk of self-esteem.”