Alexander Calvert Quotes & Sayings

But I need solitude
which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The fairest state of them all, this tranquil and beloved domain - what has it now become? A nursery for Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas. A monstrous breeding farm to supply the sinew to gratify the maw of Eli Whitney's infernal machine, cursed be that blackguard's name! In such a way is our human decency brought down, when we pander all that is in us noble and just to the false god which goes by the vile name of Capital! Oh, Virginia, woe betide thee! Woe, thrice woe, and ever damned in memory be the day when poor black men in chains first trod upon thy sacred strand! — William Styron

Private equity does pay very well, and my counterparts, guys that I grew up with who are still working at a number of firms, all make a lot of money. — Gerry Schwartz

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration. — Alan Watts

I may not be six four but I can certainly act six four. — Marshall Thornton

[ ... ] You didn't think I'd let the backstabbing little hussy get away with it, did you? Not that I don't love Jenni, but she's the baby of the family, and she thinks she should get anything and everything she wants. Occasionally she has to be shown differently. — Linda Howard

You know that first night when we stayed together here in the cabin? As sick as we were, there was no place on earth I would have rather been then here with you. — Tina Reber