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Quotes from Mother of Storms — John Barnes

born 1957 United States

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The only thing Carla has ever learned to like about dealing with power is how easy it is to embarrass people who have it.

Mother of Storms (1994)

Too bad about all those people, but as Hassan says, compassion speaks well of its holder but does little for its recipient.

Mother of Storms (1994)

Finally she resorts to the oldest tactic of all, telling the truth.

Mother of Storms (1994)

The beautiful earth is being crapped up by an excess of people—lovely as individuals, towns, and cultures, but hideous in such profusion.

Mother of Storms (1994)

With diligent effort he has established that there is no statistical basis for Murphy’s Law. He has also established that he believes in it anyway.

Mother of Storms (1994)

It is characteristic of information that it can be stolen an all but unlimited number of times.

Mother of Storms (1994)

He wonders if there is some requirement that you have to be an idiot to be a politician.

Mother of Storms (1994)

Once you understand what money can do it gets harder to live without it.

Mother of Storms (1994)

Are you up to faking being sincere underneath faking being fake?

Mother of Storms (1994)

Work does not cause money; getting paid causes money.

Mother of Storms (1994)

It’s a game against the clock, but what isn’t?

Mother of Storms (1994)

Most people think the world is out to get them, because they have all the evidence they need—they don’t get enough of what they want. But that doesn’t make it so.

Mother of Storms (1994)

Once I’m dead, I can afford to be patient.

Mother of Storms (1994)

Don’t get mad, and don’t waste time getting even.
Get ahead.

Mother of Storms (1994)

It’s a long step down the road to paranoia, but it’s been a proverb for a hundred years that being paranoid does not mean that they aren’t out to get you.

Mother of Storms (1994)

The drive to see what’s over the next hill is in part the fear that one may never know, that if one doesn’t go over the hill today, one may never get farther than the village graveyard.

Mother of Storms (1994)

Yeats fussed about things falling apart and the center not being able to hold. What really happened was that the center ceased to exist altogether.

Mother of Storms (1994)

He’s stunned numb when she takes his hand and says, “Let’s give it a try. I’ve been thinking maybe I don’t bend enough or try to see anyone else’s point of view.”

Mother of Storms (1994)

Philosophic clarity has been a key to his life in business, and he doesn’t fall for facile or self-flattering descriptions—not even, usually, for the self-flattery of thinking he is immune to self-flattery.

Mother of Storms (1994)

He’s always known the real way to money is not through production but through control; “The hotel owner gets rich owning the keys, the maids stay poor keeping the toilets clean,” as one of his biz profs back at Madison used to say.

Mother of Storms (1994)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Barnes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.