Migrated Lip Quotes & Sayings

F or a decade after the bursting of the debt bubble in 1837, business conditions were depressed in the United States. The number of banks available for financing speculative adventures declined. Then, after another 10 years, public memory faded again. — John Kenneth Galbraith

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide. — Lewis Carroll

If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too hard to force something to happen. — Reggie Watts

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom. — Ronald Reagan

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them. — Alexander McCall Smith

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. — Henry Adams

When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than ourselves, who really know how to manage things. But the government, run ostensibly for the good of the people, becomes a self-serving corporation. To keep things under control, it proliferates law of ever-increasing complexity and unintelligibility, and hinders productive work by demanding so much accounting on paper that the record of what has been done becomes more important than what has actually been done. [ ... ] The Taoist moral is that people who mistrust themselves and one another are doomed. — Alan W. Watts

The sun may be gone, but the stars are still there, waiting, always giving you light. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

I want to do drawings which touch some people ... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. — Vincent Van Gogh

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come. — Armando Iannucci