Estabilidade Financeira Quotes & Sayings

...innocence is not safe in a civilization like ours, where a man must practice a 'ruled undemonstrative distrustfulness' in order to defend himself against traps. This 'ruled undemonstrative distrustfulness' is not confined to business men, but exists everywhere. We all exercise it. I know I do, and I should be surprised if you, who are listening to me, didn't. All we can do (and Melville gives us this hint) is to exercise it consciously, as Captain Vere did. It is unconscious distrustfulness that corrodes the heart and destroys the heart's insight, and prevents it from saluting goodness. — E. M. Forster

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.' — Julie Burchill

Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking. — Jodi Picoult

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality
It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all. — F. Sionil Jose

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. — Lillian Gish

We have a very clear position in the U.K. against torture, and we should maintain that. — Theresa May

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. — Robert Burns

Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation. — David Hume

The true hero in the Black Swan world is someone who prevents a calamity and, naturally, because the calamity did not take place, does not get recognition - or a bonus - for it. I will be taking the concept deeper in Book VII, on ethics, about the unfairness of a bonus system and how such unfairness is magnified by complexity. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Chinese enjoyed the grim spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking that the world was anything else. — J.G. Ballard

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it. — Dana Spiotta

We had nothing to say to each other; and I was conscious that not only my remarks but my presence was criticized. They wished for the truth, and doubted whether a woman could speak it or be it. I thought this courageous of them; but unsympathetic. I had to remember that one is not full grown at 21. — Virginia Woolf

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it. — Justin Bieber

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life. — Richard P. Feynman