Donini Merlot Quotes & Sayings

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [ ... ] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties. — Fernando J. Corbato

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom. — Ted Cruz

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period. — Donald Pleasence

Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely. — Diane Von Furstenberg

A woman can look powerful in a party, but when she arrives at home, all she wants is to feel comfortable. — Gisele Bundchen

Eaten up with guilt, shame, fears and insecurities and obtaining, if he's lucky, a barely perceptible physical feeling, the male is, nonetheless, obsessed with screwing; he'll swim a river of snot, wade nostril-deep through a mile of vomit, if he thinks there'll be a friendly pussy awaiting him. He'll screw a woman he despises, any snaggle-toothed hag, and, further, pay for the opportunity. Why? Relieving physical tension isn't the answer, as masturbation suffices for that. It's not ego satisfaction; that doesn't explain screwing corpses and babies. — Valerie Solanas

Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion. — John Bunyan

In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary. — Jodi Kantor

Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island. — Heather McDonald

Human rights, dissidence, antiracism, SOS-this, SOS-that: these are soft, easy, post coitum historicum ideologies, 'after-the-orgy' ideologies for an easy-going generation which has known neither hard ideologies nor radical philosophies. The ideology of a generation which is neo-sentimental in its politics too, which has rediscovered altruism, conviviality, international charity and the individual bleeding heart. Emotional outpourings, solidarity, cosmopolitan emotiveness, multi-media pathos: all soft values harshly condemned by the Nietzschean, Marxo-Freudian age ... A new generation, that of the spoilt children of the crisis, whereas the preceding one was that of the accursed children of history. — Jean Baudrillard

Leadership always benefits the greater good. — Mark Sanborn

Complex systems are full of interdependencies - hard to detect - and nonlinear responses. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Oh, how hard it is to understand the hearts of girls and women. When they are not the most timid of creatures, they are the bravest. Reason has no part in their lives. — Jules Verne