Decorator Warehouse Quotes & Sayings

The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society? ... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time? — Fernand Braudel

It's a change, and I don't like changes, especially changes I don't understand.'
'Life is change,' the Fool observed lacidly. 'And death is an even greater change. I think we must resign ourselves to change, Fitz.'
'I'm tired of resigning myself to things. My entire life has been one long resignation. — Robin Hobb

I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel. — Harry S. Truman

Love might come again, Surely Dreams Never. — Sarvesh Jain

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians. — George Bernard Shaw

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey. — Chris Van Allsburg

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith

Friends don't build cages for each other. — Karen Marie Moning

I want, most of all, to glorify God. I want to make much of Him. I — Johnny Hunt

I'd been to a lot of shows and I was just tired of people being jaded about music in general. Just a lot of pretensions, a lot of the attitude that goes along with it was a little difficult for me to deal with. — Girl Talk

And finally: I reserve for myself the right to yearn after an ecological niche:
...Beneath the sky
Of my America to sigh
For one locality in Russia.

(a passage not for 'general readers' but for 'idiots') — Vladimir Nabokov