Ashram Dweller Quotes & Sayings

A recurrent theme in Kissinger's early writing is the historical ignorance of the typical American decision-maker. Lawyers, he remarked in 1968, are the "single most important group in Government, but they do have this drawback - a deficiency in history." For Kissinger, history was doubly important: as a source of illuminating analogies and as the defining factor in national self-understanding. Americans might doubt history's importance, but, as Kissinger wrote, "Europeans, living on a continent covered with ruins testifying to the fallibility of human foresight, feel in their bones that history is more complicated than systems analysis."
-Foreign Affairs, The Meaning of Kissinger: A Realist Reconsidered, By Niall Ferguson — Niall Ferguson

Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many. — Warren Buffett

The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary — Stephen King

Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating. — Brian Schmidt

When couples start to get stale, instead of looking to books or movies or other people for their support or romance, they should be coming to each other, ramping things up, making things fun. — Shelly Crane

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality. — Colin Wilson

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies. — Imelda Marcos

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. — Robert Kiyosaki