Mncat Catalog Quotes & Sayings

Unfortunately for humanity, God is patient enough to actually enjoy watching the grass grow. — A.E. Samaan

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
The reason I am is because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. The question is, 'How do you hold down government spending? The only effective way I think to hold it down, is to hold down the amount of income the government has. The way to do that is to cut taxes — Milton Friedman

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims' have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in. — Max Stirner

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him. — John Shelton Reed

First time you hear something, it sounds outlandish and broken and like it doesn't make sense. But once it's been in your head awhile it's as if the other thoughts in there wriggle out of the way to give it some room. — Michael Marshall Smith

We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build. — Eric Ries

Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it. — Steven Spielberg

The planet's famous red colour is from iron oxide coating everything. So it's not just a desert. It's a desert so old it's literally rusting. — Andy Weir

The blast wave that passed through my sister's office doubtless passed through devout Muslims, atheist Muslims, gay Muslims, funny Muslims, and lovestruck Muslims - not to mention Pakistani Christians, Chinese engineers, American security contractors, and Indian Sikhs. What civilization, then, did the bomb target? And from what civilization did it originate? — Mohsin Hamid