Equipollente Quotes & Sayings

George W. said he doesn't watch television. And, of course, well - the reason for that is the Clintons stole the White House satellite system. — David Letterman

The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products. — Bruce Perens

There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others the ills visited upon oneself. Instead of pointing successors towards short cuts, you relish seeing them clambering through identical hoops. — Michela Wrong

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. — Sylvia Earle

About a month ago I got a cactus. A week later, it died. I was really depressed because I was like, 'Damn! I am less nurturing than a desert. — Demetri Martin

Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required. — Sarah Hall

Philosophy did not find Plato already a nobleman ; it made him one. — Seneca.

I understood that I had been given my atoms, the ones that made up my heart and toenails and kidneys and brain, on a kind of universal loan program. The time would come when I would have to give the atoms back, and I didn't want to attempt to hold on to them through the chemical preservation of my future corpse. There — Caitlin Doughty

So many people have understanding, but in reality, they don't really understand understanding! When you really understand understanding, you get a real understanding! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is not enough to simply remove temptation. We must beat it away, burn it, suppress it, combat it with as much ruthless intent as we can muster. — Karen Hawkins

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be in a world of magic and romance and Goodness and then robbed back into drab, pointless life seemed so ... wrong. I didn't belong in a cottage lane with fifteen houses exactly like mine. I couldn't marry some shopkeeper or cobbler's boy and slog at the bakery each day just to feed our children. I wanted to find real happiness where The End didn't mean getting old and useless and being crammed in a graveyard with everyone else. — Soman Chainani

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun. — Ken Kutaragi