Kipplens Quotes & Sayings

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO

Do you have bad luck with all games?
With everything and with women. He smiled again, showng his bad teeth.
Truly? -Truly
And what is there to do?
-Continue, slowly, and wait for luck to change. — Ernest Hemingway,

My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ. — Samuel Rutherford

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. — Edmond De Goncourt

There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes. — Joan Robinson

Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem. — Nick Willing

We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it. — Howard Warren Buffett

Empires come and go, but playgrounds last forever. — Paul Tayyar

Can love grow infinitely? each day I feel my love for him push its roots into my soul. I rest in his arms, so close that I can feel his heartbeat as though it were my own,and I wonder that just four short months ago I did not even know him. — Ahdaf Soueif

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. — E. O. Wilson

Things happen for reasons that are hidden from us, utterly hidden for us as long as we think they must proceed from what has come before, our guilt or our deserving, rather than coming to us from a future that God in his freedom offers to us. — Marilynne Robinson

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color. — Mary Cassatt

Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich. — Fabiola Gianotti

I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep. — Leonardo Da Vinci