1672 Wordscapes Quotes & Sayings

The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are no longer willing to submit to control, but demand that everything be subject to their authority. The invariable result is that government assumes the noble names of free and popular, but becomes in fact the most execrable thing, mob rule. — Polybius

The greater problems of history are not solved; they are merely forgotten. — Edward O. Wilson

Yet, happy are the pure of heart for they have known the music. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master. — Leo Tolstoy

Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets. — John Cusack

My opinion? I'm discombobulated. Before dinner = fully combobulated. Now = completely and totally without combobs. — Rachel Harris

I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired. — Yvonne Strahovski

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing. — Dave Matthews

His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room. — Graham Greene

The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine - until it wasn't. — Ron Suskind

The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase. — Benjamin Graham

She's my best friend, better than a dog or car. — Lou Reed

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age. — Frank Pittman

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself. — Frances G. Wickes