Phebus Torrontes Quotes & Sayings

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory. — Alexis De Tocqueville

He is
better than warm fall colors
better than beautiful music
better than doughnuts and coffee — Lisa Schroeder

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know. — Jim Harrison

By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract, ... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century. — John Maynard Keynes

I wanted to drink the Kool-Aid he was serving, but by then my taste buds had matured and I preferred the vinegary truth. — Kathy Hatfield

It is the last great minute before he walks into your life, but you don't know that yet, can't know. Later, though, you will try to imagine where he was in this exact instant, when he had turned and started to travel toward you, you to him, and how the world around both of you took no notice. Your life would not be the same, but that was all waiting, up in the air, all fate and chance and inevitability. — J.P. Monninger

you make me want to know what goes on in that head of yours. I'll be honest: I'm not usually interested in the contents of others people's heads. My own is work enough. — Julie Buxbaum

I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth. — Phil Hartman