Petschek Quotes & Sayings

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption. — Vittorio Alfieri

It is much easier to die than to bear a life of misery with fortitude. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past. — Monica Lewinsky

I'm focused on myself and on what I've got to do ... I'm just trying to get back on track and keep this positive mindset. — Tim Lincecum

A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent — Irwin Schiff

I met Betty on the street.
"I saw you with that bitch a while back. She's not your kind of woman."
"None of them are. — Charles Bukowski

Because I'm human. It's human to care." "But it's not your job. — C.D. Reiss

And Petschek had asked - because he was genuinely puzzled by this - why so many people, Americans especially, seemed to feel that happiness was an entitlement. By dint of his own experiences as a refugee and a wanderer, Petschek found the notion to be strangely naive and immature - especially here at the bottom of a chasm whose ramparts offered such irrefutable testimony not only to the smallness of human affairs but also to the universe's implacable indifference to those hopes and longings. Yet — Kevin Fedarko

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful. — Rashida Jones

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group. — Gloria Steinem

There's leaders, and there's followers ... but I'd rather be a d*ck than a swallower — Kanye West

When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself-and being in touch with it is your natural state, all your actions and relationships will reflect the oneness with all life that you sense deep within. This is love. Laws, commandments, rules and regulations are necessary for those who are cut off from who they are, the Truth within. — Eckhart Tolle

Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Every increase has a purpose, the purpose is possession! — Sunday Adelaja

Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it, after all." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake in explaining. — Arthur Conan Doyle