“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions.… — Victor Methos Beauty Copy Share Image
“You’re too young to remember, but doctors used to smoke in hospitals. Sometimes, they’d recommend it to patients. You can still see… — Victor Methos Medicine Copy Share Image
“Remember one thing above anything else: if you say something confidently enough, people will believe you. Even if you’re wrong.” — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
“Hope was what was left in Pandora’s box. Maybe people’s lives aren’t meant to have hope.” — Victor Methos Hope Copy Share Image
“Every dictator in history has made that same speech, Bob. Hitler thought he was fighting for the greater good, too. Isn’t it… — Victor Methos Communication Copy Share Image
“If people gave as soon as they earned, it would keep them humble, as his mother had told him at least once… — Victor Methos Parenting Copy Share Image
“Secrets had the power to make people stick together against the rest of the world.” — Victor Methos Stick together Copy Share Image
“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years.… — Victor Methos Life Copy Share Image
“The law is like a big rusty ship. You can’t change its course without nearly destroying the ship in the process.” — Victor Methos Law Copy Share Image
“The entire fabric of civilization is held together by this one principle: we let the law determine justice, not an individual.” — Victor Methos Integrity Copy Share Image
“Since I was a kid, I’d held an unshakeable belief that if a person wanted something bad enough, the universe would provide… — Victor Methos Faith Copy Share Image
“I always looked at the grass in front of buildings. When a property was struggling, they cut the landscaping budget first.” — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
“I don’t think success or failure is the measure. It’s the trying. It’s doing your best to try and follow what you… — Victor Methos Doing your best Copy Share Image
“We’re told by this system that you are the car you drive or the size of your house or the number in… — Victor Methos Bank account Copy Share Image
“Whatever you put in the world is what you get back. All that hatred and fear, one day it’s going to come… — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
“Living the bachelor life was too much of a gamble: wait too long for the right person, and you could end up… — Victor Methos Life Copy Share Image
“Jack realized he wasn’t getting through to him. He remembered something Emerson had written: What you do speaks so loudly that I… — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
“They are in their life exactly where their past thoughts have brought them. Our thoughts are what make us who we are.… — Victor Methos Life Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a habit,” her mom would say, “and the more it’s practiced, the easier it comes.” — Victor Methos Habits Copy Share Image
“It’s not a good decision.” “Maybe not, but it’ll be my decision. Not my mother’s, not society’s, just mine. And if it’s… — Victor Methos Decision making Copy Share Image
“what PI lawyers called “an invisible client”—one who lived and breathed but didn’t officially exist.” — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t money itself that I cared about, but what it represented: freedom, power, and luxury . . . all tied up in one neat… — Victor Methos Freedom Copy Share Image
“You are dealing with national security. Anything labeled a national security issie is taken out from the system. There is no due… — Victor Methos Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
