Kunsthandwerker Quotes & Sayings

Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit. — Ayn Rand

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding. — Samuel Johnson

I think you can walk and chew gum at the same time. I think you can oppose the president on some issue that you fundamentally disagree with, but also work with the other party on issues you do agree with. — Paul Ryan

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. — Gretel Ehrlich

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga. — David Ogilvy

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur. — James Van Allen

There is a distressing but not uncommon condition of presidents and other world leaders known as Worrying about Africa. It is usually picked up overseas as at summit meeting on world poverty or disease, and symptoms include painful twinges of guilt over the discrepancy between First and Third World wealth, uncomfortable feelings somewhere below the stomach that perhaps unfettered capitalism is not the benevolent force for good we are constantly assured it is, and frequent attacks of calling for Something to Be Done. The best remedy is invariably a stiff dose of domestic crisis. — Nicholas Drayson

Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy. — Charlaine Harris

Technology is great...when it works. — Bobby Darnell

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings ... it's like having a family with a lot of children. — Renzo Piano