P777 Quotes & Sayings

Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return. — Lindsey Davis

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. — Ronald Reagan

I woke up and the last piece of my heart disappeared. I opened my eyes and I felt it go. — Courtney Summers

We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel. — David Hilbert

WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character. — Ambrose Bierce

It was known as the Sick Man of Europe. It was in every way poorer than now. Yet there were flowerbeds on roundabouts, libraries and post offices in every village, cottage hospitals in abundance, council housing for all who needed it. It was a country so comfortable and enlightened that hospitals maintained cricket pitches for their staff and mental patients lived in Victorian palaces. If we could afford it then, why not now? Someone needs to explain to me how it is that the richer Britain gets the poorer it thinks itself. — Bill Bryson

By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing. — Hugo Grotius

When I'm editing, I tend to cut, go back over it, cut, go back over it, cut, so by the time I'm done, even with a cut, I don't have a rough cut and then work on it so much. I have a pretty rigorous cut of the movie that's usually in the range of what the final movie is going to be. It doesn't mean I don't work on it a lot after that, but I get it into a shape so I feel I can really tell what it needs, or at least it's ready to show people. — Noah Baumbach

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence. — Nicolas Chamfort

I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things. — Barney Frank