Duerson Construction Quotes & Sayings

While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible. — Walter J. Phillips

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets — Napoleon Bonaparte

I aim at being useful, and sincerity will render me unaffected; for, wishing rather to persuade by the force of my arguments, than dazzle by the elegance of my language, I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart. - I shall be employed about things, not words! — Mary Wollstonecraft

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short. — Andy Taylor

Take the hand you're dealt and then finesse it, — Eric Van Lustbader

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish. — Warren Buffett

We can never fully impact others to change if there is no evidence of change in our lives. — E'yen A. Gardner

The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces. — Irvine Welsh

The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good, just magnificent. — Margaret Visser