Arlew Quotes & Sayings

I think things that contribute to the destruction of our free-incentive system are wrong. A trend against that free-incentive system is wrong, and should only be temporarily engaged in, in the event that war or something of that kind requires it. Otherwise, it should be reduced. — George M. Humphrey

It was well to impress one's enemies with a show of strength. It was even better to be sure one's friends remembered it as well. — Robin Hobb

University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government. — Doug LaMalfa

It was an occasion that undoubtedly did more credit to Mr. Deacon's social adroitness than to my own, because I was still young enough to be only dimly aware that there are moments when mutual acquaintance may be allowed more wisely to pass unrecognised. — Anthony Powell

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino. — Mads Mikkelsen

It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get your head around that, can you? You can't get your head around the fact that someone who is 60 was once 16, if you're 16. But the fact is they have been, and they remember it. — Helen Mirren

My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit. — Naomi Watts

Every fit has a misfit. Finding your fit is the path rather than fighting to fit. — O. Stephen Peart

Once the characteristic numbers of most notions are determined, the human race will have a new kind of tool, a tool that will increase the power of the mind much more than optical lenses helped our eyes, a tool that will be as far superior to microscopes or telescopes as reason is to vision. - LEIBNIZ, Philosophical Essays, TRANS. BY ARLEW AND GARBER — Neal Stephenson