Basie At Birdland Quotes & Sayings

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

As teachers, we can literally overcome the negative influence of a community. How many other professionals can say that? That's practically a superpower. — Katie Novak

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. — Ayn Rand

There were no words for that, no ceremony that would garantee your future. Every day was just that: a day, a blank, a nothing, in which you had to invent yourself and your friendship from scratch. The weight of everything you'd ever donewas nothing. It could all vanish just like that. Just like this. — Chad Harbach

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem. — Anatole France

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius