5392 02 Quotes & Sayings

I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in. — C.S. Lewis

It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen. — Alan Greenspan

For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget. — Stant Litore

Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy. — A.O. Scott

Always demand proof of nirvana before you start following messiahs who're selling it to you. Those guys don't exactly have the greatest track record in the universe. — Peter F. Hamilton

I look to work with businesses that know what they are doing but need larger distribution or exposure. — Daymond John

What are we to say when we see asceticism preached to the poor by fat and comfortable retainers of the rich? — Upton Sinclair

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job. — Bruce Robinson

We have to worry about protecting the Constitution. — Karen Hughes

It may be that it is this very dulness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and welcome. Nevertheless, there can be but few of us who had never known one of these rare moments of awakening when we see, hear, understand so much
everything
in a flash
before we fall back again into our agreeable somnolence. — Joseph Conrad

Often we don't realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past. — Robert B. Cialdini

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. — Alan Coren

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing. — Hannah More