Gene Rayburn Quotes & Sayings

There are two rules for achieving anything. Rule No. 1: Get started. Rule No. 2: Keep going. — E. Howard Hunt

No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much the same way that flour is linked to the market for bread. Fair value for CMOs (the finished product) implied a fair value for conventional mortgage bonds (the raw materials). — Michael Lewis

Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer? — Fran Lebowitz

Joseph Stalin was said to have contemptuously asked, "How many divisions has the pope? — Francis Fukuyama

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life. — Amartya Sen

When you invest so much in someone, they become a part of you. And when they leave, that part of you goes with them. You become irrational in your attempts to justify it. Bitter. Angry. Sorrowful. You don't sleep. You don't eat. You don't live. The pain becomes so much to bear that there is a part of you that wishes fate had never given them to you in the first place, so you'd be spared the pain of having lost them. — Brent Saltzman

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship. — Gail Sheehy

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life. — Alan Keyes

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time.
Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse.
This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again. — Inga Muscio

Games of chance fell outside the boundaries of urban reformers' definitions of respectable labor and amusement — LaShawn Harris

I love a doctor who can respect that somebody else is on your team, and that's God. — Robin Roberts

Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop. — Miuccia Prada

You don't need superpowers to be someones hero — Ricky Maye