Arpad Quotes & Sayings

Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders. — Arpad Busson

Last night I weaved dreams from the cobwebs of time! — Avijeet Das

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
— Leonora Carrington

The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person. — Arpad Busson

The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz was the deep student and fierce competitor to the end of his career. — Arpad Elo

Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which two chessplayers could agree is that a third one is over-rated. — Arpad Elo

What's dangerous is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few individuals. — Arpad Busson

The Royal family have always been great philanthropists. — Arpad Busson

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek. — Ernest Hemingway,

Strong organizations with strong risk controls will survive and prosper. — Arpad Busson

In markets, you have rich years, and you have less rich years. — Arpad Busson

I see my boys about 10 days every month. And, yes, they are the most important people in my life. — Arpad Busson

Note well that investigative journalism springs mostly from two sources: whistleblowers' leaks and beat reporters' expertise. — Jeff Jarvis

If you lower your head to within a foot or two of an infested corpse - and this I truly don't recommend - you can hear them feeding. Arpad pinpoints the sound. "Rice Krispies." Ron frowns. Ron used to like Rice Krispies. — Mary Roach

There are many good reasons for drinking, and one's just entered my head: If you don't drink when you're living, how the fuck can you drink when you're dead? — Warren Ellis

The only way you beat motherfuckers who try to fuck with you is not to let them beat you. So you deal. — Kristen Ashley

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing. — Arpad Busson

I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I'd sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I'd do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine. — Moby

I think I was born into an incredibly fortunate environment. — Arpad Busson

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that. — Arpad Busson

It really set my nerves jangling," Jenny Larsen confessed. "Wasn't it strange, the way it kept up, day after day?" Alice Grebe, to whom this question was directed, said nothing, for — James A. Michener

There is nothing shameful about being efficient. — Arpad Busson

No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance. — Barry O'Farrell

Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among soldiers in battlefields. He sought a man who had died and returned to life amid the wounded struggling for their lives in pools of blood, a soldier who could tell him about the secrets of the Otherworld. But one of Tamerlane's warriors, taking the seeker for one of the enemy, cleared him in half with a smooth stroke of his scimitar, causing him to conclude that in the Hereafter man is split in two. — Orhan Pamuk

You never know how things are gonna turn out, though, and that's the truth. You aim for one place, sure as an arrow, but before you hit the mark, the wind gets you. I don't believe I ever met one person who became what they wanted to be when they were your age." "I'd like to be everybody in the world," I said. "I'd like to live a million times. — Robert McCammon

I once thought I defeated the evil in my heart. I learned something: We can face our demons, burn them up, stomp them into the ground. I turned mine to ashes. But even if you destroy the evidence of evil, you can't heal your heart. Not by yourself. — Ted Dekker

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it. — Madeline Kahn

The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind. — Arpad Elo

Historically, over the last two or three hundred years, the relationship that we've had with money as a society - having money, talking about money - has been a little bit of a shameful thing. Splashing money about is clearly wrong, but there's nothing wrong about giving it back. — Arpad Busson

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society. — Gordon B. Hinckley