Galatoires Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. — Roy Blount Jr.

Kneels? Falters? Look to the night sky, foolish man, and gauge the victor in the contest between Dark and Light. — Steven Erikson

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be. ~ 14th Dalai Lama in his talk to the Society for Neuroscience in 2005 in Washington. — Dalai Lama XIV

I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles. — Jim Crace

Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence. — David D. Aitken

She does not acknowledge hatred. A waste of time. Life — Kelly Gardiner

No matter what your goals are, you've got to bring other people onto your team. For one thing, if you surround yourself with people who want to be successful, you become successful. — Kimora Lee Simmons

I think there are some groups of stocks that are highly vulnerable because they're in cuckoo land in terms of valuations, — Marc Faber

There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion. — George W. Bush

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights. — Eric Hoffer