Hatsis Alexander Quotes & Sayings

He had wandered with innocence and naivete into this web, and now every move would wrap him tighter. Each lie would stick to the others, until one day he would find himself in a tight little cocoon, trapped and suffocating from the thousands of little fibs that living and working in that cursed swamp of a city seemed to require every man to ooze. — Hugh Howey

To be curious about a thing you have to find something surprising in it, and I'm afraid that nothing surprises me any more. — Sian Busby

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain. — Rainer Maria Rilke

'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic engine? He never built it ... I have an analytic machine of my own-right here.' He taps his own skull. — David Leavitt

I thought I was in love, but it was only a head cold. (Humans) — Robert Emmett

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society — John C. Bogle

The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures; for tho' their people have very few slaves themselves yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others. — Thomas Jefferson

It held an eye to the future and a tongue to the past. — Matthew Skelton

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns. — Barry Ritholtz

Immoral people debating the existence of God is always a crowd pleaser. — Katja Millay

The trick, my brethren and sisters is to enjoy the journey, traveling hand in hand, in sunshine and storm, as companions who love one another. — Gordon B. Hinckley