Hermann Von Keyserling Quotes & Sayings

I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account. — Tony La Russa

Like what?" "Like this. I can feel you like beaming anxiety at me. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Well when you cant sleep well you cant dream and when you cant dream well whats life mean — Hollywood Undead

You don't knock on the devil's door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

...there should be a few places where prairie dogs can just be prairie dogs, where they can kick back and fulfill their niches in the grand scheme of the shortgrass prairie, work on their whistles, try to dig to China or least to Amarillo. Sooner or later a hungry mother kit fox will strike blood, but until then there should be a few places where prairie dogs don't have to worry about two guys bumping chests behind a pickup truck after a single exploding bullet launches them heavenward for an extra eleven points. "Montana Mist!" If not on public lands like the Cimarron National Grassland, then where? — George Frazier

You? - his words overwhelmed him with a realization of the cowardice which had driven him from her at the very moment of attainment. Yes - he had always feared his fate, and he was too honest to disown his cowardice now; — Edith Wharton

Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns six percent on capital over forty years and you hold it for that forty years, you're not going to make much different than a six percent return - even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns eighteen percent on capital over twenty or thirty years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you'll end up with one hell of a result. — Charlie Munger

I don't think geometric art is ... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity. — Donald Judd

To behave as if the thermostats on their imaginations were set permanently on high. — Tom Robbins

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless. — George Orwell