FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust. ... (Ivan Krastev)

Everyone contributed to this legend except Phineas. At the outset, with the attempt on Hitler's life, Finny had said, "If someone gave Leper a loaded gun and put it at ... (John Knowles)

General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be. ... (Jane Austen)

The starting point of enlightenment, a goal that every person should strive for, is inner leadership. Leadership is far more than something businesspeople do at work. Leadership is all about ... (Robin S. Sharma)

So don't go, she wanted to say, but she couldn't. Not when he looked so happy, so excited about what his future might hold. That was the way normal people ... (Stacia Kane)

The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate ... (D.H. Lawrence)

I think a lot of what the iPad app is going to be used for is just reading the best content on Quora. It really helps the whole system run ... (Adam D'Angelo)

Be counterproductive. Hilda's ... (Stephen King)

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of ... (Martin Feldstein)

Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue ... (Michael Moss)

Yeah, you do. Because right now, I'm your best hope to defeat Byzamoth. So if you don't want to spend eternity bent over and holding your ankles for him, you'll ... (Larissa Ione)

I had a very funny and depressing talk with my seventy-four-year-old mother. I decided, she doesn't have a bucket list - she has a kick-the-bucket list. ... (Lori Lesko)

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, ... (Buddha)

It just seemed to me, that if you valued a thing, you found ways to keep it from being compromised. ... (R.K. Lilley)

Let's put our money where our mouth is; let's invest in the future by investing in the education of our youth and the re-education of those who need it and ... (Steve Bivans)

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along. ... (Peter Temple)

If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written? ... (Neil Leckman)

Better not to do than to do, better to meditate than to act, better his astrophysics, the threshold of the Unkowable, than my chemistry, a mess compounded of stenches, explosions ... (Primo Levi)

You know how sometimes when you come home and you haven't seen a place for so long that it seems unbelievably beautiful, and you want to cry because you love ... (Elizabeth Wein)

I don't look backwards. I'm pleasantly surprised, and I feel really proud of the team and what we were able to accomplish together. But really, where I'm focused is the ... (Tony Fadell)

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn. ... (Taylor Swift)

I remember Mac retorting that hundreds of years ago there was a Hindi word for a craft that flew in the air, long before the airplane was invented, but that ... (Nelson Mandela)

So - if the oldest memories could contaminate one another, could prove impossible - what good was memory at al? ... (Gregory Maguire)

Corruption free" will truly be in a future impossible tense because many people re-elect unscrupulous politicians! In the end because of blind immunity to reality and impunity of "justified" corruptions ... (Angelica Hopes)

My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and ... (August Wilson)

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. ... (Jackson Pollock)

Every 'good' scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is. ... (Karl R. Popper)

I can control what happens in the chemistry lab. There's a formula and an equation, and I know exactly what the reaction will be when I mix one thing with ... (Laurie Elizabeth Flynn)

The evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do.Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably anxious. I needed to talk to ... (Daniel Quinn)

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish. ... (Michael Ignatieff)