Fritton Retreats Quotes & Sayings

We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise. — Anonymous

Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To this boy of New England the May morning was like faint music in the woods again, some unspeakably exciting foregathering of events far in the deep shade of morning pines, all of it stirring there. He could hear it all faintly in the woods from far away, from across the fields and pastures, in the cool misty morning air, and he wanted to go there too. — Jack Kerouac

When you come into the world you have nothing ... when you leave you have nothing ... and in between there's the IRS. — Bob Thaves

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody. — Ben Stiller

Of troubles know I none,Of pleasures know I many -I rove beneath the sunWithout a single penny. — Eleanor Farjeon

In those meetings, I learned that even economic diagrams needn't be linear. Ours was a nest of concentric circles, and an enterprise was measured by its value to each circle, from the individual and family to the community and environment. I realized that Rebecca and her colleagues were trying to do nothing less than transform the System of National Accounts, the statistical framework here and in most countries for measuring economic activity. For instance, the value of a tree depends on its estimated value or sale price, but if it is sold and cut down, there is no accounting on the debit side of the ledger for loss of oxygen, seeding of other trees, or value to the community or the environment. This group was inventing a new way of measuring profit and loss.
By the end of our days together, I understood economics in a whole new way. A balance sheet really could be about balance. — Gloria Steinem

I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I'm more interested in helping my fans to love who they are, and helping them to reject prejudice and reject those things that they're taught from society to not like themselves, to feel like freaks, that they're not wanted. — Lady Gaga

Employment is world slavery — Sunday Adelaja

How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard. — Joan Rivers

I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed. — Gordon Ramsay

My sleeve is torn and my breeches are unaccountably damp, but nothing was harmed save my dignity. — George R R Martin