Eddisst Quotes & Sayings

I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural. — Tony Visconti

I'm sure Mark Carney is a very clever young man, but I think that the government would be mad to move from inflation targeting to money GDP targeting. — Nigel Lawson

The clothes may vary, but the person is the same. — Idries Shah

Who Protects the Consumer? "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chuses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens." - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, vol. I, [>] — Milton Friedman

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

And why did men insist on buying the largest size? Didn't they understand the concept of sizes? Did they think buying a magnum sized condom was going to fool me into thinking their Toyota Camery was an aircraft carrier? — Penny Reid

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. — Anthony Doerr

Hot air balloons are terrific to shoot from, although they have become very expensive, as has most lodging and food in the Napa Valley. — Peter Menzel

Hey this is terrific!" Zaphod said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us! — Douglas Adams

There is no way to stop. Writers go on writing long after it becomes financially unnecessary ... because it hurts less to write than it does not to write. — Robert A. Heinlein

Were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of — Lee Child

The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions. — Evan Esar

I am saying this because I don't think there can be anything more aggravating and intolerable than to be ruined by an accident which might or night not have happened, by a fortuitous concatenation of circumstances which might have passed away like a cloud. For a man of education nothing can be more humiliating. - The Gentle Spirit — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The cards you have in your hand don't determine the winner but the ones you put on the table do. — Abdullah Abu Snaineh

I've heard of a dozen prophets over the years. It's not an uncommon occupation. — Emily St. John Mandel