Mathis Gravis Quotes & Sayings

Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do. — Michael Specter

A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory. — B.C. Forbes

Some women are good-looking ... until they change their hairstyle. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Hoped that the extra padding of his shirt would protect — Christopher Paolini

Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals. — Arthur Frommer

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what. — Steven Pressfield

I have been in the presence of a lot of greatness. And people I love who have loved me back. It might be the same thing. — Ally Condie

Ages of happiness. - An age of happiness is quite impossible, because men want only to desire it but not to have it, and every individual who experiences good times learns to downright pray for misery and disquietude. The destiny of man is designed for happy moments - every life has them - but not for happy ages. Nonetheless they will remain fixed in the imagination of man as 'the other side of the hill' because they have been inherited from ages past: for the concepts of the age of happiness was no doubt acquired in primeval times from that condition of which, after violent exertion in hunting and warfare, man gives himself up to repose, stretches his limbs and hears the pinions of sleep rustling about him. It is a false conclusion if, in accordance with that ancient familiar experience, man imagines that, after whole ages of toil and deprivation, he can then partake of that condition of happiness correspondingly enhanced and protracted. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Be a person who radiates the fire of love to burn and purify everything around to create the beauty of joy and peace. — Debasish Mridha

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage. — Penn Jillette

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process. — Carol Moseley Braun

I'm not really thinking much ... Just sort of, trying to feel. — Janis Joplin

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation. — Ida Lupino

When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all. — Lois Greiman