Ipshita Quotes & Sayings

Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways. — Malcolm X

Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. — Sydney J. Harris

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals. — Abraham Lincoln

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude. — Sam Altman

One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow." It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver." — Zachary Cole Smith

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets. — Carlos Santana

Vampires are cruel." Steopa said. "we exist to weed out the weak and the unneeded. We feed on humans. — Mari Miniatt

The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false. — Frederick Lenz

If you want to hear God speak, read your Bible. If you want to hear God speak audibly, read your Bible out loud. — Justin Peters