Clasping Heliotrope Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about. — Neal A. Maxwell

I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times. — Donald Hall

That I was a swimmer made no waves; it seems to be a law of human nature
that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers. — Yann Martel

A variation in the objective exchange-value of money can arise only when a force is exerted in one direction that is not cancelled by a counteracting force in the opposite direction. If the causes that alter the ratio between the stock of money and the demand for it from the point of view of an individual consist merely in accidental and personal factors that concern that particular individual only, then, according to the law of large numbers, it is likely that the forces arising from this cause, and acting in both directions in the market, will counterbalance each other. — Ludwig Von Mises

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ. — Pope John Paul II

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human. — Julian Assange

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ? — Bertrand Russell

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art. — Barbara Goldsmith

Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it. — Jeffrey Fry

Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on. — Meg Rosoff