Corinna Kopf Quotes & Sayings

Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety. — Benjamin Graham

I was starting to feel like everyone had weird secret relationships now. It made me paranoid as hell. — Carrie Mesrobian

You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul. — Walt Disney

Sometimes, I think, you can look at a person and know they are full of words. Maybe the words are withheld due to pain or privacy, or maybe subterfuge. Maybe there are knife-edged words waiting to draw blood. — Madeleine Thien

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost. — Socrates

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind. — John Adams

An aggravating feature of this post-9/11 atmosphere is to cast suspicions on Muslims and on Islam as a religion that is interpreted as either inherently violent or death-oriented, with a particular animus against America and Americans. — Richard A. Falk

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political
especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey

You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities of human life. He waits for us everyday, in the laboratory, in the operating theatre, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the fileds, in the home and in all the immense panorama of work. — Josemaria Escriva

The truth was that, with the Duchess de Luxembourg, with Mme de Morienval, Mme de Saint-Euverte and any number of others, the features that made their faces distinctive were a big red nose next to a hare-lip, or two wrinkled cheeks and a faint moustache. Such features cast their own spell well enough since, as a merely conventional form of handwriting, they enabled one to read a famous and impressive name; but ultimately they also gave rise to the notion that ugliness was somehow aristocratic, that it was a matter of indifference that the face of a grand lady should be beautiful, provided that it was distinguished. — Marcel Proust

Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important. — John Carroll Lynch

Humans are mysterious creatures. There comes a time when we can clearly understand even things that we can't see. It's the same with anything. If you try your best, you can understand what it's like to "try your best". If you don't try your best, you understand what it's like to "not try your best". — Sakura Tsukuba

Intention is the core of all conscious life. Conscious intention colors and moves everything. — Hsing Yun

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded. — Ike Skelton

It is the violent act that makes history and changes everything that came before. (154) — Don DeLillo