Gustav Bergmann Quotes & Sayings

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything. — William Morris

You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed. — Yanni

On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation. — Roger G. Ibbotson

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. — James Goldsmith

The world is more outlandish than some people's imaginations. — Niall Williams

But Ransom soon perceived that it regarded intelligence simply and solely as a weapon, which it had no more wish to employ in its off-duty hours than a soldier has to do bayonet practice when he is on leave. Thought was for it a device necessary to certain ends, but thought in itself did not interest it. It assumed reason as externally and inorganically as it had assumed Weston's body. — C.S. Lewis

Contradiction is an inseparable part of the human condition, and that suffices as a source of miraculousness. — Czeslaw Milosz

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like ... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.' — Drew Barrymore

Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance. — Stefan Emunds

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on. — E.L. Doctorow

To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture. Every — L.M. Montgomery

I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it. — Eric Stoltz

Those in power are so afraid of losing it, they will do anything to keep the world under their control. Even when 'anything' means ignoring dangerous truths that threaten to grow more powerful the longer they're unaddressed. — Romina Russell