Holmsten Charles Quotes & Sayings

The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words. — Josephine Winslow Johnson

A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship. — Tom Coburn

Sometimes what seems to be a difference in opinions is in fact just a difference in definitions. — Scott Adams

I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business. — John Caudwell

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

During the whole funding process they said, 'We're interested in you guys because of your management team; we think you're fantastic ... ' Two weeks later they pull me into the office - before even the first board meeting - and say, 'We want to replace you as CEO.' — Mark Fletcher

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation. — Sukarno

It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity ... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods. — George Santayana