Languag Quotes & Sayings

In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted backdrop for thrilling scenes of adventure in private life. Nowadays, history moves at a brisk clip. A historical event, though soon forgotten, sparkles the morning after with the dew of novelty. No longer a backdrop, it is now the adventure itself, an adventure enacted before the backdrop of the commonly accepted banality of private life. — Milan Kundera

nineties Ross Gellar hair. — Karina Halle

I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. — Smedley Butler

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task. — Jim Rohn

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me. — Alex Ferguson

You are just landmark stupid, aren't you? Has Guinness called yet about that world record? — Rachel Caine

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it — Paul A. Vixie

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal. — Charlton Laird

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it. — Bertrand Russell

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. — Sigmar Gabriel

Body does what mind prefers. — Lenny Krayzelburg

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term? — John C. Bogle