270 Wsm Quotes & Sayings

Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible. — Gerhard Richter

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm. — Jane Austen

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far. — Fannie Hurst

Life is mean! Don't lose your humour jacket. You'll really need it. — Nike Thaddeus

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped. — Aesop

My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be. — Gwen Cooper

No, he didn't win, Great-Uncle Merry said, and even in the clear afternoon sunshine he seemed with every word to become more remote, as ancient as the rock behind him and the old world of which he spoke. — Susan Cooper

When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody. — Newt Gingrich

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do. — Neko Case

Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already. — Cameron Herold