Nasellos Tree Quotes & Sayings

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost ... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre ... — H.L. Mencken

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. — Joseph Stiglitz

I believe in marriage. I believe that two good people can be happy together for a lifetime. It's the only thing even close to a religion that I have, and I cling to it with almost messianic zeal. But it is a belief system that makes unreasonable demands on its adherents, all of us sacrificing to the bone for a reward that may or may not come at the end of our days; and all of us steadfastly refusing to see the mounting evidence that long-term happy marriages, if they exist at all, are pretty hard to come by. We all want to think that miracles are possible. Otherwise, marriage is just a lot of hard work. — Kate Hilton

But the strangest of all sensations is the moment after you have been freed of the baby
and the baby of you
and you are handed this tiny shriveled creature to hold for the first time ... and you feel a mixture of unbelievable instant love and desperate fear. — Douglas Kennedy

We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers. — Helen Sharman

At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn't. — Crystal Woods

I'm drawn to the imperfection in him amidst all that surface pretty. — Lauren Blakely

Because after my marriage fell apart I felt like an empty parking space, and James just pulled into it. — Terry McMillan

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office. — Ursula Burns