Quotes & Sayings About Chinese New Year 2014

Until he had come up with a name, he was too pathetic to look at
a real idiot. But now that he had some label like graviconcentrate, he thought that he understood everything and life was a breeze. — Arkady Strugatsky

Under the stress of the event, we felt, each man's true nature was revealed. The impression we had of each candidate's character was as direct and compelling as the color of the sky." He had had no trouble identifying which men would make good officers and which would not. "We were quite willing to declare, 'This one will never make it,' 'That fellow is rather mediocre,' or 'He will be a star.'" The problem came when he'd tested his predictions against the outcomes - how the various candidates had actually performed in officer training. His predictions were worthless. And yet, because it was the army and he had a job to do, he kept on making them; and because he was Danny, he noted that he still felt confident about them. — Michael Lewis

I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake. — Raymond E. Feist

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines. — Alex Berenson

The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds. — Nuno Oliveira

I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors. — Pearl Cleage

The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing ... Many of the high-quality sighting reports involve certain objective aspects, which, to an open-minded bystander, are quite impressive. — Peter Davenport

they greet those who are cast down, and those in heart, those troubled adn those filled with desire, those who are overjoyed and those disconsolate, all lovers. may all herein find strength against inconstancy, against unfairness and despite and loss and pain and all the bitterness of loving. — Joseph Bedier

Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting. — James A. Owen

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty. — Sacha Guitry

The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan