Evolume Quotes & Sayings

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it? — John D. Rockefeller

Consider the problem, "How can I win the game of tick-tack-toe?" It is well known that I cannot, if I assume (in keeping with the conventions of game theory) that my opponent understands the game perfectly. Put another way, there is no "technical solution" to the problem. I can win only by giving a radical meaning to the word "win." I can hit my opponent over the head; or I can drug him; or I can falsify the records. Every way in which I "win" involves, in some sense, an abandonment of the game, as we intuitively understand it. (I can also, of course, openly abandon the game--refuse to play it. This is what most adults do.) — Garrett Hardin

He is a terrible human being. He's a shit. So don't dwell on him. Flush him out of your life. Gone. — Sophie Kinsella

Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella. — Stephenie Meyer

My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power. — Chuck Palahniuk

True, it would not be a new venture for him. But need it be? Could one possibly accuse him of nostalgia or idleness, of wasting his time simply because he had read the story two or three times before? — Amor Towles

[Parental] authority must be tempered ... with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents ... All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions ... — Pope Pius XII

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time. — Julia Child

Life is a priceless gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised. — Elin Hilderbrand