Impelling Finance Quotes & Sayings

It was a strange staging for death, for the woman on the high bed was dying. Slowly, fighting every inch of the way with a grim tenacity, but indubitably dying. Her vital ardour had sunk below the mark from which it could rise again, and was now ebbing as water runs from a little crack in a pitcher. — John Buchan

When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow. — Henry David Thoreau

I do not believe I can no longer dress people, but it's more about dressing their insides. Everyone is affected by healthcare. Everyone is affected by education. And for me, a personal inspiration is the preservation of culture. — Donna Karan

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past. — Tom Peters

Also, he detested people who bought fast horses that they were unskilled to ride. Furthermore, he detested: recreational sailing vessels; surveyors; cheaply made shoes; French (the language, the food, the populace); nervous clerks; tiny porcelain plates which broke in a man's damned hand; poetry (but not songs!); the stooped backs of cowards; thieving sons of whores; a lying tongue; the sound of a violin; the army (any army); tulips ("onions with airs!"); blue jays; the drinking of coffee ("a damned, dirty Dutch habit!"); — Elizabeth Gilbert

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment. — John Barrow

A small number of choice books are sufficient. — Voltaire

I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife ask 'How do I reload this thing'. — Dick Armey

That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance? — Rabindranath Tagore

We are going to start winning again. We don't win on trade, we can't beat Isil. We are going to win so much. We are going to make America greater than ever before. — Donald Trump

Then you my goddess with your immortal lips smiling
Would ask what now afflicts me, why again
I am calling and what now I with my restive heart
Desired:
Whom now shall I beguile
To bring you to her love?
Who now injures you, Sappho?
For if she flees, soon shall she chase
And, rejecting gifts, soon shall she give.
If she does not love you, she shall do so soon
Whatsoever is her will.
Come to me now to end this consuming pain
Bringing what my heart desires to be brought:
Be yourself my ally in this fight. — Sappho

McMaster University, Courtesy of Kevin Mitchell, — Josh Dean

Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing. — Lincoln Kirstein