Depots By John Quotes & Sayings

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so. — Sharon Stone

THE economic consequences of fluctuations in the objective exchange-value of money have such important bearings on the life of the community and of the individual that as soon as the State had abandoned the attempt to exploit for fiscal ends its authority in monetary matters, and as soon as the large-scale development of the modern economic community had enabled the State to exert a decisive influence on the kind of money chosen by the market, it was an obvious step to think of attaining certain socio-political aims by influencing these consequences in a systematic manner. Modern currency policy is something essentially new; it differs fundamentally from earlier State activity in the monetary sphere. — Ludwig Von Mises

Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well. — Ruth Simmons

If you think about a human face, it can be something you don't want to look at,so sad or so hard or so kind. It can be something you want to hide, because it pretty well shows where you've been and what you can expect. And anybody at all can see it, but you can't. It just floats out there in front of you. It might as well be your soul, for all you can do to protect it. — Marilynne Robinson

She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either in the garret or cellar." In either mood, she needed attention, something the self-contained Lincoln was not always able to provide. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family. — Claire Denis

We'd get one precious hour of making out or talking - usually making out, made more frantic by the pressure bearing down on us - and — Richelle Mead

One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know. — Karen Mills

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album. — John Otto

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there. — Deion Sanders

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis. — Yasser Arafat

We'd pluck the spiky chestnuts, leaving their green outer shells intact, and throw them at the neighbor boys.
I always took particular care in aiming for Jack's head. He told me later that he rode his bike by my house on purpose. I asked him if he liked pain. — Brodi Ashton

I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it. — Rib Hillis