Cortical Visual Impairment Quotes & Sayings

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. — Arthur Schopenhauer

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone. — Kirk Douglas

Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues! — Charles Dickens

Using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results. — Charlie Munger

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. — Thornton Wilder

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get. — Rodney Dangerfield

No, I guess I don't see the point of pretending and putting on airs. I'm not ashamed of who I am. At one point, yes, I was embarrassed about who I was, and the clothes that I wore, and where I lived. But I learned that those things weren't important. What's most important to me is family and being proud of the person I am. I'm not going to pretend I'm someone I'm not. — Chanda Hahn

It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.' — Kevin Hart

America's prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill. — Bryan Stevenson

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts. — Peter Abelard

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo. — Lewis H. Lapham

When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune. — Chick Corea

If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards. — J.R.R. Tolkien