Doe Quote by Jack McDevitt Download Open image “How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?” — Jack McDevitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Happens Inspirational Love Rise to the top Type
One must work really hard to reach the top, especially the one who is at the bottom. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Most of the people who reach the top are the very same ones who started at the bottom. — Susan Gale Copy Share Image
It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top. — Kirsty Coventry Copy Share Image
People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Just because you make it to the top, the work gets more difficult to stay there. — Scottie Scheffler Copy Share Image
It's hard to stay at the top. There's a cheesy saying isn't there: it's easy to get to the top but once you're there… — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong.… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“...those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.” — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it? — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
