Demandando Quotes & Sayings

My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept. — Benoit Mandelbrot

There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one's humanity, to exist in a colder, crueler world than before. — John Connolly

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms. — Ouida

Healing is the gateway to peace and peace is the path to passion and purpose. — Saba

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's. — Debbie Ford

The Master said, Guide the people by law, aline them by punishment; they may shun crime, but they will want shame. Guide them by mind, aline them by courtesy; they will learn shame and grow good. — Confucius

When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history. — Kenneth Langone

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. — Rita Coolidge