Bielefeldt April Quotes & Sayings

I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies. — Gretchen Rubin

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?' — Cal Ripken Jr.

In The Theory of the Moral Sentiments, Smith emphasized that trust, responsibility and accountability exist only in a society that respects them, and only where the spontaneous fruit of human sympathy is allowed to ripen. It is where sympathy, duty and virtue achieve their proper place that self-interest leads, by an invisible hand, to a result that benefits everyone. And this means that people can best satisfy their interests only in a context where they are also on occasion moved to renounce them. Beneath every society where self-interest pays off, lies a foundation of self-sacrifice. — Roger Scruton

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me. — Billy Joel

[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow. — Catherine Crook De Camp

The status quo is unacceptable, and it is costly. Whatever money the province may feel it is losing with revenue sharing will be more than paid off by the revitalization and empowerment of Aboriginal communities. To put matters of dignity in blunt economic terms: healthier communities cost less to taxpayers. — Bob Rae

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. — Isaac D'Israeli