Barry Buzan Quotes & Sayings

When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices. — Todd Park

A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who spend everything they get. This is probably the oldest financial advice in the world, but there are some things you can't improve on. — Jane Bryant Quinn

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up. — Todd Barry

If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing - flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it. High-shouldered to a degree little short of malformation, slender and adroit of limb and frame, his eyes close-set and the colour of dried blood, he is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings — Mervyn Peake

I wonder why the promises I make to other people always become more important than the ones I make to myself. — Alyson Noel

I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian. — Ksenia Solo

I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey
Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way,
And every Bulrush on the river bank
A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray. — Oliver Herford

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. — B.F. Skinner

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians. — Luke Ford

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is. — Terry Pratchett