Arvs In Full Quotes & Sayings

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. — Oscar Wilde

We don't remember days,we remember moments. — Cesare Pavese

If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy. — Peter Diamandis

You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased. — Daniel Kahneman

There's an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous relief in that sense of how they were written to allow primary emotion, elemental emotion, to matter enormously but to give the thing an extraordinary flow so you don't notice at what point that you're actually overwhelmed by this. There's no showiness, at all. It's the opposite of showiness. I think, if it was a painting, it could be very grey abstract, almost, with some lines and very, very beautiful. But you wouldn't have a notion of where the beauty was.
(Talking about the short stories of Alistair MacLeod, who he discovered while working on The Modern Library.) — Colm Toibin

If proof were needed that statistics alone are not enough in establishing value, then VT Trumper is that proof. — Patrick Ferriday

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result. — Wayne Dyer

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel. — Nicholas Meyer

M. de Salaberry was not amused. — Victor Hugo