Linsco Private Quotes & Sayings

paradox - it takes knowledge to gain knowledge - is — Joshua Foer

When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives. — Amy Vanderbilt

Love has turned to be a sad tragedy of my life even we both are alive — Seema Gupta

The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like. — J.K. Rowling

You can't just provide power, you also need public education. — Zephyr Teachout

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions. — Mike Svob

Pheidippides ran twenty-six miles from Marathon to Athens with news of the Greek victory. — Mark Rowlands

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ... — Agnes Repplier

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important. — Blake Mycoskie

The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt. — Eric Hoffer

Oedipa stood in the living room, stared at by the greenish dead eye of the TV tube, spoke the name of God, tried to feel as drunk as possible. But this did not work. — Thomas Pynchon

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit. — Cornel West

There is, however, something odd about this pattern. Other than joining a political party, it is hard to think of any other sort of community that people join by agreeing to a set of principles. Imagine joining a knitting group. Does anyone go to a knitting group and ask if the knitters believe in knitting or what they hold to be true about knitting? Do people ask for a knitting doctrinal statement? Indeed, if you start knitting by reading a book about knitting or a history of knitting or a theory of knitting, you will very likely never knit. — Diana Butler Bass

In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation of their fellows, I posit the "banality of heroism," which unfurls the banner of the heroic Everyman and Everywoman who heed the call to service to humanity when their time comes to act. When that bell rings, they will know that it rings for them. It sounds a call to uphold what is best in human nature that rises above the powerful pressures of Situation and System as the profound assertion of human dignity opposing evil. — Philip Zimbardo