Alexandros Onassis Quotes & Sayings

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments. — Thomas Jefferson

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe? — Michael Douglas

The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody. — Jon Runyan

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future ... — Charlie Munger

I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact that someone is willing to pay to read what we write assures us that we have indeed written. — M.V. Carey

American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids. — Joe Baca

Qafzeh's algorithms - if implemented properly on a particular architecture of quantum computer - led to a net heat loss from the local universe. A cryo-arithmetic engine was in essence just a computer, running computational cycles. Unlike ordinary computers, however, it got colder the faster it ran. — Alastair Reynolds

From self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged; — Lao-Tzu

When you are being what you really are you absolutely flourish in the midst of absolutely everything. — John De Ruiter

I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so. — Margaret Thatcher

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do. — Harrison Ford