Ovids Daedalus Quotes & Sayings

The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the line, but to benefit the masses even more than the rich. — Henry Hazlitt

He had a weary air of responsibility about him, both bureaucratic and mythological, like someone doomed to guard a cave for all eternity. I — Emma Cline

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that. — Terry Goodkind

We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it. — William James

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other. — Jane Austen

Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of them. The first is staleness of imagery; the other is lack of precision. The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing. As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house. — George Orwell

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition. — Carlos Ghosn

Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie. — Aziz Ansari

The odds of finding love are one in 285,000, but the probability of getting married is 80 percent. There seems to be a discrepancy here. Your — Rebekah Crane

This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains. — Brent Weeks

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody. — Piet Mondrian

Putting is a very personal affair. — Greg Norman

You don't win or lose the games bcoz of 11 you select.
You win or lose with what those 11 do on the field. — Rahul Dravid

As far as I was concerned, physical education was evil. You take a bunch of teenagers, make them strip down in front of each other in a locker room, have them don hideous matching uniforms, and then measure their worth based on their ability to chuck balls at a net, into a hoop, or at each other. It was just. Evil. — Emma Mills