Lobservation En Quotes & Sayings

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you're truly free. — Steve Pavlina

Boys," I mutter tolerantly across the years to Saleem-at-twenty-four, "will be boys. — Salman Rushdie

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead? — Leonardo Da Vinci

I suppose next time I come home I shall find you wearing false moustaches - or are you doing so now?'
Poirot winced. His moustaches had always been his sensitive point. He was inordinately proud of them. My words touched him on the raw.
'No, no, indeed, mon ami. That day, I pray the good God, is still far off. The false moustaches! Quelle Horreur!'
He tugged at them vigorously to assure me of their genuine character.
'Well, they are very luxuriant still,' I said.
'N'est-ce pas? Never, in the whole of London, have I seen a pair of moustaches to equal mine.'
A good job too, I thought privately. — Agatha Christie

Sometimes she was seized with hallucinations and thought she was buried in some vault together with a lot of puppet-like corpses which nodded their heads and moved their legs and arms when you pulled the strings. — Emile Zola

My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in
which I am an expert ... For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion - 'if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who's merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying'. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit. — Burt Rutan

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest. — Robert Kiyosaki

In Proverbs we read: 'He that winneth souls is wise.' If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever. — Dwight L. Moody

I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made. — Gary Vaynerchuk

When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life. — Tejomayananda

St. Bernard said, 'Every word one writes smites the Devil. — Lillian Stewart Carl

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection. — Ilka Chase

The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes. — Milos Zeman