Internet Box Podcast Quotes & Sayings

Malice is rare. Most men are much too concerned with themselves to be malicious. — Friedrich Nietzsche

She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan was brilliant at what he did, and he might well have made it even if Ash's father hadn't encouraged him, but it really helped that Ethan had grown up in a sophisticated city, and that he had married into a wealthy family. Ash was talented, but not all that talented. This was the thing that no one said, not once. But of course it was fortunate that Ash didn't have to worry about money while trying to think about art. Her wealthy childhood had given her a head start, and now Ethan had picked up where her childhood had left off. — Meg Wolitzer

The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. — Francis Bacon

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to. — Jodi Picoult

Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it. — Rick Perlstein

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without. — Elizabeth I

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members. — Carolyn Hax

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it? — Nigel Farage

Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. — Haruki Murakami

Many an expert says that there is a certain affinity between (Capablanca's style) and that of the world master, Lasker. There may be some truth in it. Lasker's style is clear water, but with a drop of poison which is clouding it. Capablanca's style is perhaps still clearer, but it lacks that drop of poison. — Jacques Mieses

You may as well tell our readers that death and taxes are coming back. — Dani Kollin

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot. — Henry Ward Beecher