Biblioth Que Num Rique Quotes & Sayings

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements and shift to normal, market relations affecting gas supplies and gas transit. — Viktor Khristenko

She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye. — Jerry Lee Lewis

I distress you; I draw fast to an end. — Charles Dickens

It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No - when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. — Abraham Lincoln

I know you do not understand what I am trying to tell you; I know you do not understand, because it is the thing that goes deepest into my heart, and there are no words as deep down as that. How can I make you know the reality of it? The world has spattered us all over with words, with cant phrases, with sarcasm, and with fulsome flattery. The world has been so officiously eager to explain for us the thing we mean and the worth of the thing that now, when we try to speak, our meaning is veiled, concealed, smothered, by the hideous volubility of facile expression. How can it have any reality for you when you hear only words about it? — Florence Converse

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. — Thomas Hobbes

Why, if those were my images of death, did I remain so unable to accept the fact that he had died? Was it because I was failing to understand it as something that had happened to him? Was it because I was still understanding it as something that had happened to me? Life — Joan Didion

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave. — Ludwig Von Mises

I know all about baggage, sweetheart. I have enough of it to fill up a 747 and then some. — K. Bromberg

Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system. — Benjamin Carson

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do. — Ben Vereen

I don't understand why prostitution is illegal, Selling is legal, f***ing is legal. So why isn't it legal to sell f***ing? Why should it be illegal to sell something that's legal to give away? — George Carlin