Formulary Lookup Quotes & Sayings

History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future. — Gustavo Gutierrez

We didn't have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn't waste an afternoon on it — Betty White

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment. — Samuel Johnson

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. — Plato

We're out of nuclear crisis mode and into normal, day-to-day crisis mode. — Ray Nagin

Bullish or bearish are terms used by people who do not engage in practicing uncertainty, like the television commentators, or those who have no experience in handling risk. Alas, investors and businesses are not paid in probabilities; they are paid in dollars. Accordingly, it is not how likely an event is to happen that matters, it is how much is made when it happens that should be the consideration. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid — Joni Mitchell

Our voices sound kinder in the skin of our own language. — Melina Marchetta

Comparisons are like rigid fingers - eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points. — Caitlyn Jenner

Every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them. — L.M. Montgomery