Bogdanoff Bros Quotes & Sayings

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting. — Kirk Douglas

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. — John Updike

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them. — Peter Weir

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's! — Lord Byron

Reciprocal marketing, promotions and links. In public good experiments, behavioral economists have demonstrated that the potential for reciprocal actions by players increases the rate of contribution to the public good, providing evidence for the importance of reciprocity in social situations. — Carl William Brown

You win the fight by fighting. — Christian Kane

The lovers of God have no religion but God alone. — Rumi

I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry. — Sarah Siddons

I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to ever write about anything else. — Steve Martin

For with the complete disappearance of my boredom, to which I had not dared to give a name, I had changed for the better. — Francoise Sagan

But the cinephile is ... a neurotic! (That's not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it's because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, "When you love life, you go to the movies," it's false! It's exactly the opposite: when you don't love life, or when life doesn't give you satisfaction, you go to the movies. — Francois Truffaut

Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed — Oliver E. Williamson

Modern technology easily becomes the servant of this or that want and need. In modern economy, a completely irrational consumption conforms to a totally rationalized production. A marvelously rational mechanism serves one or another demand, always with the same earnestness and precision, be it for a silk blouse or poison gas or anything whatsoever. Economic rationalism has accustomed itself to deal only with certain needs and to acknowledge only those it can "satisfy." In the modern metropolis, it has erected an edifice wherein everything runs strictly according to plan - everything is calculable. A devout Catholic, precisely following his own rationality, might well be horrified by this system of irresistible materiality. — Carl Schmitt

Tell him. Please tell him I love him. — Stephenie Meyer