Aprovecho Quotes & Sayings

Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland healer/uniter image stitched together out of whole cloth this past six years by Obama's packager, David Axelrod. Making heavy use of Obama's own writings, which he admires for their literary artistry, Sailer gives the deepest insights I have yet seen into Obama's lifelong obsession with 'race and inheritance,' and rounds off his brilliant character portrait with speculations on how Obama's personality might play out in the Presidency. — John Derbyshire

Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they have. — Henry Hazlitt

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational. — Matt Mullenweg

What was a coincidence, Moody thought, but a stilled moment in a sequence that had yet to be explained? — Eleanor Catton

Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.' — Jim Rohn

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people. — Immanuel Kant

When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned with perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it. And you do that by loving the wacky, endlessly optimistic, enthusiasticall y uninhibited free spirit that is the essence of style, the quintessence of heart, and uniquely you. — Cecelie Berry

The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow. — Jack Kerouac

Donald Trump is a fool, but he is not free to be a dangerous fool in Britian. — Jack Dromey

A person needed savings in order to move, but more than that he needed gumption. — David Sedaris

Luck is not fate. Believe it or not, it's largely an attitude. — Willis Turner

I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame. — Timothy F. Cahill

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather. — Bruno Latour