Maledictator Quotes & Sayings

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them. — Carlos Slim

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. — Robert M. Pirsig

It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit." — Ellen G. White

It's an empowering idea. The entire goliath of the food industry is driven and determined by the choices we make as the waiter gets impatient for our order or in the practicalities ad whimsies of what we load into our shopping carts or farmers'-market bags. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Pushing the limits, to be thought provoking, pushing people to think and question the limits, it's not always bad for the rules if you're confident because it can even strengthen your understanding of religion in the process. — Tariq Ramadan

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament. — Marilyn Monroe

I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation, my run was often silent and empty; there were no increments, no arbitrary graduations reducing time to functional units. I abstracted and purified. — Tom Robbins

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious — C. G. Jung

You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements. — Gautama Buddha

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real. — Baruch Spinoza

faint heart never won fair lady — Meg Cabot

Never look at what you want to change. Always look at what has changed. — Jane Kang