Oz Guinness Quotes & Sayings

All great men had simple beginnings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. — James Whistler

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut. — Eric Clapton

The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think the federal government's gone way beyond that. The Constitution never said that you could have a Federal Reserve that would have $2.8 trillion in assets. We've gotten out of control. — David Malpass

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. — Frida Kahlo

The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been — Timothy Snyder

tip Use colored leg bands to keep track of different aged chickens of the same breed. — Jessi Bloom

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away. — Lyn Nofziger

You can make yourself crazy, refiguring it all after the fact. You did what you thought was best at the time. You helped a friend. That's what matters. — Craig Lancaster

Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful. — Tony Dungy

Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ... — Isaac Newton

At present, in this vicinity, the best part of the land is not private property; the landscape is not owned, and the walker enjoys comparative freedom. But possibly the day will come when it will be partitioned off into so-called pleasure-grounds, in which a few will take a narrow and exclusive pleasure only, - when fences shall be multiplied, and man-traps and other engines invented to confine men to the public road, and walking over the surface of God's earth shall be construed to mean trespassing on some gentleman's grounds. To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. Let us improve our opportunities, then, before the evil days come. — Henry David Thoreau

The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries. — George Soros

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! — Mikhail Lermontov

Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining. — Isabel Allende