Ccvii Stock Quotes & Sayings

Kindness is the music that softens every heart and fills it with ineffable joy. — Debasish Mridha

The ability of individuals to extract wealth from society by profiting from land also leads to cultural degeneration and a loss of social cohesion over time... In general, as the value of land increases, the return on capital tends to decrease comparatively, which discourages business owners from investing in capital goods and private enterprise... Resources flow away from endeavours that can create jobs, produce wealth, and enliven society, and instead flow into land speculation. — Martin Adams

I'm a big boy. I can take it.
You got into a fight.
I'm also stupid. — Joss Stirling

Lord, I pray today that my words may be soft and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them. — Unknown

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal. — Jean-Philippe Rameau

I have always loved a window, especially an open one. — Wendell Berry

Hasta la vista, baby, he tells me, and I shake my head and smile at how adorably dorky he can be. His Spanish only comes from Arnold Schwarzenegger. — Cynthia Hand

Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later. — Lewis Thomas

It sounds crazy, but I promise you it's true; wearing red lipstick really can change the course of a night out — Minnie Mortimer

The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival. — Nathan Englander

If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification. — Jonathan Edwards

These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information. — Charles Sturt