Bontia Daphnoides Quotes & Sayings

In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of supply and demand. If, therefore, the fixed salary is a violation of this law - as, for instance, when I see two engineers leaving college together and both equally well trained and efficient, and one getting forty thousand while the other only earns two thousand , or when lawyers and hussars, possessing no special qualifications, are appointed directors of banks with huge salaries - I can only conclude that their salaries are not fixed according to the law of supply and demand but simply by personal influence. And this is an abuse important in itself and having a deleterious effect on government service. — Leo Tolstoy

Those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight. — Plato

Some people have sex by putting fishhooks in each other. Couple this act with a simple understanding of the basic function of all living creatures to expand and contract. Now, try that with fishhooks. — Sarah Schulman

Your calling is to bless lives ... Just the way you smile or the way you offer to help someone can build their faith. — Henry B. Eyring

The sound of her voice was painful. She screamed, sobbed, whispered Hallelujah. But she never sang it. — Brenna Yovanoff

Some unexplainable things are real. — John Irving

I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which I liked, but it was a - just a kind of a general education that I got, a regular academic - academic diploma, but I kind of had the feeling that art was something that I really liked the most but I wasn't really sure that that was it. — Robert Barry

I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing. — Zara Phillips

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. — Harrison Birtwistle