Othmar Spann Quotes & Sayings

I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes. — Sarah Hyland

Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline.
I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session. — Dean Koontz

Oddly emphatic, as if she'd been waiting all day for a chance to discuss the weather. — Tom Perrotta

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you. — Justin Verlander

Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's ... no doubt about that. — Robert Carlyle

If what we know to be true does not translate over into the way we love one another, it is a misrepresentation of THE TRUTH. — Blake L. Higginbotham

Interesting form of murder we come up with: Assassination. We assassinate people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Apparently we are not ready to live together. — George Carlin

I knew the man up until our divorce - after that I didn't know the man, but it didn't stop me caring about him and worrying because of the complete change that I saw in him. He'd lost his sense of humour and he got aggressive; he wasn't for the world any more, he was just for Yoko. Before that he opened his arms and embraced the world with his wit and humour - afterwards he was a completely different kind of person. — Cynthia Lennon

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. — Tom Hayden

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. — Alexander Pope

The Founding Fathers of the United States understood the risk of tribal religious conflict very well. George Washington observed, "Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing and ought most to be deprecated." James Madison agreed, noting the "torrents of blood" that result from religious competition. John Adams insisted that "the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." America has slipped a bit since then. — Edward O. Wilson

Paradise!' he screamed. 'The one and only indispensable Paradise. — Jack Kerouac

Berkshire has the lowest turnover of any major company in the U.S.The Walton family owns more of Wal-Mart than Buffett owns of Berkshire, so it isn't because of large holdings. It's because we have a really unusual shareholder body that thinks of itself as owners and not holders of little pieces of paper. — Charlie Munger