Alzana Quotes & Sayings

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history. — Steven Heighton

Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies ... But the people as a whole now admired and respected him deeply ... His unscrupulous past and cynical opportunism were being largely forgotten or forgiven. He was gradually becoming recognized not only as the prophet of a new Conservatism, at once compassionate at home and positive abroad, but as a great statesmen whom the Queen did well to honour. Power had brought responsibility. By 1878 the transformation in public attitudes towards Disraeli was complete. — Christopher Hibbert

The first requisite for a good cup of coffee in the morning is to get your wife out of bed. — Evan Esar

Being a bitch could be a survival technique. They get respect. There was no honor in people thinking you were a slut. — Penelope Douglas

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else. — Jaggi Vasudev

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. — Walt Whitman

The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? — Rebecca Wells

A buyback is itself a special kind of acquisition, made at prices that are typically a bargain compared with those a company must pay for an outside purchase. — Carol Loomis

That is all about the raising of Lazarus, she whispered severely and abruptly, and turning away she stood motionless, not daring to raise her eyes to him. She still trembled feverishly. The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candle-stick, dimly lighting up the poverty-stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book. Five minutes or more passed. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not ... the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army ... our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms ... — Abraham Lincoln

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Just because you lose doesn't make you a loser. It's not the same fight every time. — Ricardo Liborio

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions
if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong. — Michael Lewis