Itemize Quotes & Sayings

We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy. — Anker Jorgensen

Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we believe. To not only learn but also effectively implement investment lessons requires a disciplined, often contrary, and long-term-oriented investment approach. It requires a resolute focus on risk aversion rather than maximizing immediate returns, as well as an understanding of history, a sense of financial market cycles, and, at times, extraordinary patience. — Seth Klarman

Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs. — Damien Fahey

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured
by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been. — Solon

Jesse Jackson's in trouble. They're going after this tax thing. Jesse said he will amend his taxes to show the money that he paid to his mistress. See, he has just one mistress. Jesse uses the standard mistress deduction. As opposed to Clinton, who had to itemize. — Jay Leno

After a pause Lily looks up at me. "Sometimes I think of you as Dad." My heart rises in my throat. That's the only term of endearment I need. — Steven Rowley

Love awakens the soul. — A.D. Posey

On Beauty

No, we could not itemize the list
of sins they can't forgive us.
The beautiful don't lack the wound.
It is always beginning to snow.

Of sins they can't forgive us
speech is beautifully useless.
It is always beginning to snow.
The beautiful know this.

Speech is beautifully useless.
They are the damned.
The beautiful know this.
They stand around unnatural as statuary.

They are the damned
and so their sadness is perfect,
delicate as an egg placed in your palm.
Hard, it is decorated with their face

and so their sadness is perfect.
The beautiful don't lack the wound.
Hard, it is decorated with their face.
No, we could not itemize the list.

Cape Cod, May 1974 — Zadie Smith

French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint. — Sarah Turnbull

It may be said with truth that man is always susceptible of
improvement — Thomas Robert Malthus