Copservir Quotes & Sayings

It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading. — George S. Patton

Yet economics purports to be strangely exempt from this fact of life. From Adam Smith's day to our own, the chief concern of the discipline has been to render economic events unsurprising ... The discernment of orderly rules governing the apparent chaos of life was a remarkable achievement and continues to amaze. — George Gilder

We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it. — Robert Webb

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you. — Jonah Goldberg

Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur. — Julie Andrews Edwards

Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the idea that animals don't have the same capability for suffering as humans, because otherwise they couldn't bear the knowledge that they are surrounded by a world of nature that is horror and nothing but horror.
Paul was pleased that man was gradually covering the whole earth with concrete. It was as if he were watching a cruel murderess being walled up. — Milan Kundera

In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture! — Dwayne Hickman

We always want to be going forward. It's scary to go back. — Chellis Glendinning

The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements ... But what is important is having all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner, not in spurts. — Taiichi Ohno

Her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others. — Leif Enger

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. — Fulke Greville

The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it. — Andrew Jackson