Consolidated Electric Quotes & Sayings

India offers demographic dividend, democracy and demand ... 3D. I have added a new D. De-regulation. — Narendra Modi

In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come — Marianne Williamson

Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech for a brief time and returns home. His fake ghetto books have bought him a townhouse in Gramercy Park and home on Staten Island. — Ishmael Reed

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert

His moans become nasty, disgustingly malignant, and go on for whole days and nights. And of course he knows himself that he is doing himself no sort of good with his moans; he knows better than any one that he is only lacerating and harassing himself and others for nothing; he knows that even the audience before whom he is making his efforts, and his whole family, listen to him with loathing, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For example, a telegram is a "lightning-letter"; a wireless telegram is a "not-have-wire-lightning-communication"; a fountain-pen is a "self-flow-ink-water-brush"; a typewriter is a "strike-letter-machine". Most of these neologisms are similar in the modern languages of China and Japan. — Wolfram Eberhard

A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase. — Bertrand Russell

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on. — Justin Trudeau

Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid. — Aoife O'Donovan

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore De Balzac