Hited Quotes & Sayings

State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness. — Ludwig Von Mises

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of
attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones. — Sogyal Rinpoche

You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears. — Scott Westerfeld

Compassion is contempt with a human face. — John McCarthy

It's with my brush that I make love. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice question of casuistry was seriously agitated, Whether those tender victims, who had inflexibly refused their consent to the violation which they sustained, had lost, by their misfortune, the glorious crown of virginity. There were other losses indeed of a more substantial kind and more general concern. — Edward Gibbon

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.' — Sonia Sanchez

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see. — Philippa Gregory

I've got a distribution system that goes to 170 countries. If I acquire properly, you know, you may be successful in one or two countries, or one place; I can scale, and that's part of the value that IBM brings. — Ginni Rometty

Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers. — James Surowiecki

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror. — John Young

A lapse in judgment is not a crime. — Eddie Perez

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet. — Henry David Thoreau