Commodities Pro Commodity Quotes & Sayings

The ordinary man cannot imagine this Providence in any other form but that of a greatly exalted father, for only such a one could understand the needs of the sons of men, or be softened by their prayers and placated by the signs of their remorse. The whole thing is so patently infantile, so incongruous with reality, that to one whose attitude to humanity is friendly it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. It is even more humiliating to discover what a large number of those alive today, who must see that this religion is not tenable, yet try to defend it inch by inch, as if with a series of pitiable rearguard actions. — Sigmund Freud

My architecture is the architecture of survival. — Frei Otto

I've always said your legacy is what you leave behind you. — Darrell Waltrip

Why is the determination to fight against a prejudice a sure sign that one is full of it? Such a determination necessarily arises from an obsession. It constitutes an utterly sterile effort to get rid of it. In such a case the light of attention is the only thing which is effective, and it is not compatible with a polemical intention. — Simone Weil

Heat rushes up my neck and I fall off a ladder holding a paintbrush dipped in red. — Tahereh Mafi

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to. — Michael Caine

To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and when it is done, the world has in it one less candidate for misery. — Paul Scherrer

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. — David Attenborough

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become. — George R R Martin

And then he glanced at the ceiling and, making a fist with his right hand, he gasped, Damn you ... God! Damn you! — Anne Rice

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. — Jeff Bezos

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny — George Washington

There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what s/he is told to do. And the other is the person who does no more than s/he is told to do. - Andrew Carnegie — Mark Sanborn

To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will. — Nassau William Senior