Gismondi Associates Quotes & Sayings

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done. — Jose Bergamin

At Sandwich, in 1579, she paid the magistrates' wives a great compliment when, without employing a food taster, she sampled some of the 160 dishes they had prepared for her and even ordered some to be taken to her lodgings so that she could eat them later. — Alison Weir

To understand something is to be delivered of it. — Baruch Spinoza

Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem. — Elizabeth Eulberg

If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out. — Michael Schenker

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer. — David Platt

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. — Luciano De Crescenzo

Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going." "I have no idea what that means," Josh said. "Is it like some sort of ninja trick?" Niten shot Josh a warning look. "Whatever you do, don't mention-" It was too late. In the backseat Aoife stirred. "Ninjas," she spat. "Why is everyone so obsessed with ninjas? They were never that good. And they were cowards, sneaking around in their black pajamas, stabbing their victims with poisoned darts. I hate ninjas-they have no honor. — Michael Scott

Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard. — Karl Pilkington

A real encounter with the living God changes everything. First, it magnifies the Lord, and then it puts me and my ego and my sin and my burdens all in their rightful place. — James MacDonald

You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings. — Sarah Kane

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard. — Alan Greenspan