Michael Lewis Quotes

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

It is futile to go against human nature.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?

I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet

The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure.

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.

I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.

I am the beast at the end of the rope.

What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

It is useless attacking the insensible.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.

I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.

I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.

I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.