Bijan Robinson Quotes & Sayings

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship
Dante
Petrarch
that sort of thing! — Ada Leverson

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are. — Ludwig Borne

Whoa ... don't go all Kramer on me! — Glenn Beck

In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

The new structure of the U.S. stock market had removed the big Wall Street banks from their historic, lucrative role as intermediary. At the same time it created, for any big bank, some unpleasant risks: that the customer would somehow figure out what was happening to his stock market orders. And that the technology might somehow go wrong. If the markets collapsed, or if another flash crash occurred, the high-frequency traders would not take 85 percent of the blame, or bear 85 percent of the costs of the inevitable lawsuits. The banks would bear the lion's share of the blame and the costs. The relationship of the big Wall Street banks to the high-frequency traders, when you thought about it, was a bit like the relationship of the entire society to the big Wall — Michael Lewis

Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind. — Frederick Glaysher

Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male. — Arthur Conan Doyle

This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue. — Dante Alighieri