Here are some thoughts to consider:
"For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him." - Luke 14:28
"There is no such thing as history, only a frontier." - Donald Draper
"Done by noon, drunk by two.” - Ernest Hemingway
"Hemmingway was the biggest jerk I met in all of World War II” - Andy Rooney
"The fuckin' raccoons are shittin' in my fireplace." - US Senator Barry Goldwater
"Everything that isn't nailed down is mine, and anything I can pry loose isn't nailed down." - Collis P. Huntington, founder of the Southern Pacific Railroad
"Come over to the dark side...we have cookies!" - 88.1 The Edge
"I don’t propose to force or be forced. Those that want me will come to me.” - Howard Roark, in Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead”
"Every man deserves watching.” - Cornelius Vanderbilt
"Corporations have neither bodies to be kicked, nor souls to be damned.” - Gouge
"Action is consolatory…Only in the conduct of our action can we find a sense of mastery over the Fates.” - Conrad