Pableaux Quotes & Sayings

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature ... — Edward Gibbon

Ownership of the means of production, on the other hand, carries a power to which the traditional safeguards of our political institutions are unequal. — Albert Einstein

When God says to us, " Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you,"He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him. — Theodore L. Cuyler

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner. — Michael Symon

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity. — Bruce Lee

Bring anger and pride under your feet,
turn them into a ladder and climb higher. — Rumi

[Robert] Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest. — Randall Jarrell

You'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to know what you're getting yourself into, so if there's blame, blame yourself. — David Sedaris

I have adhered to my rule of never criticising any measure of war or policy after the event unless I had before expressed publicly or formally my opinion or warning about it. — Winston S. Churchill

Just so I'm clear ... you thought a brothel would be a suitable place to host a birthday party for a woman? — Lindsay Buroker

Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans. — Elizabeth Warren

The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money. — Benjamin Jowett

Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples. — Lewis Howard Latimer