Dalio Foundation Quotes & Sayings

It is false to suppose that so long as Scripture and doctrine are preserved, disciplinary and liturgical tradition can safely be modernised at will. — Aidan Nichols

Never judge anyone by the choices they've made, because you never know they might have selected the best option out of two bad choices. — Asma Naqi

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. — Thomas Sowell

...the assertion that you live in a lie while I live in the truth is the most cruel thing one person can say to another... — Leo Tolstoy

The more you try to force life to flow where you would like it to go, as opposed to where it wants to go, the less efficient you become and the more energy you use. — Richard Rudd

Yet the greening grasses and overarching elms and oaks, just beginning to come into leaf, gave the scene a picturesque air, like a fairy-tale dwelling; — Joyce Carol Oates

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been. — Kurt Vonnegut

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows. — Albert Einstein

AKIHI n. Listening to directions and then walking off and promptly forgetting them means that you've gone "akihi." When they explained how to get there, their directions all made perfect sense - you nodded and looked back with clear understanding. Then you parted ways, and now you can't remember whether to take a left or a right. noun — Ella Frances Sanders

These 'anthropologists of peace' (who in fact are rather aggressive academics - the ethologist Johan van der Dennen calls them the Peace and Harmony Mafia. — Steven Pinker

Like all planets, I turn in my sleep, I've been doing it
since before I was born.
My body is a nightmare
it hurts me every day.
I've been taught to resent it by boys
trying to forge themselves righteous through conquering.
They knew there was something wrong with me,
it was explained through hands
that spoke only in exclamation points. — Brian Ellis

You like it. Knowing things about people. It makes you feel powerful. — Sara Wolf