Acedera Quotes & Sayings

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva's tower ... I live still a collegiate student ... and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world ... aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all. — Robert Burton

The market performs miracles so routinely that we take it for granted. Supermarkets provide 30,000 choices at rock-bottom prices. We take it for granted that when we stick a piece of plastic in a wall, cash will come out; that when we give the same plastic to a stranger, he will rent us a car, and the next month, VISA will have the accounting correct to the penny. By contrast, 'experts' in government can't even count the vote accurately. — John Stossel

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star. — Joaquin Miller

Women like jewelry. They're like racoons: show them some shiny stuff and they'll follow you home. — Alonzo Bodden

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was ... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical. — Bill Gates

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action. — Donnie Yen

I've always been a bad flyer, but I don't let it get in the way of travelling. I love stepping off the plane and feeling the heat and the foreign smell of being somewhere different. — Louise Nurding

I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire. — Harry S. Truman

Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. — Edgar Cayce

People always grow and mature. — Jesse Jackson

Where sin had brought men, love brought the Saviour. — Arthur W. Pink

The silence became uneasy. It was broken by the elderly princess saying, The most distressing thing about being up here above the clouds is that there is no weather to make conversation out of. — Diana Wynne Jones

All men die. Only a few ever live. — Mel Gibson

If we're afraid to stand in our own skin with those we work with, then how do we lead those who have no voice at all? — Ertharin Cousin

A man is not defined by one allegiance alone... If he were, then reason would have no value, nor would loyalty have meaning. — Krishna Udayasankar