Melchiades Quotes & Sayings

Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless. — Idries Shah

I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets. — Evan Williams

Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars. — Alex Berenson

The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a song today, I have a title" and all of that, and sometimes inspiration just happens, almost like "Sugar, Sugar" and a couple of the other songs. But basically, I just started playing the piano, and I'm not a great piano player. — Andy Kim

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. — E.B. White

That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing. — Akkineni Nagarjuna

The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says. — Ken Livingstone

She always pretended to herself that she didn't let Lauren help because she was trying to be the perfect mother-in-law, but really, when you didn't let a woman help, it was a way of keeping her at a distance, of letting her know that she wasn't family, of saying I don't like you enough to let you into my kitchen. Lauren reappeared — Liane Moriarty

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way. — Richard Harding Davis

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. — Conrad Black

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles. — Epicurus

But my pretty little Gwen ... me and her daddy ... Then she purred. Seriously. Purred. — Shelly Laurenston

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God. — Matt Chandler