Phi44 Quotes & Sayings

It is hard to realize today that "government" during the American Civil War a hundred years ago meant the merest handful of people. Lincoln's Secretary of War had fewer than fifty civilian subordinates, most of them not "executives" and policy-makers but telegraph clerks. The entire Washington establishment of the U.S. government in Theodore Roosevelt's time, around 1900, could be comfortably housed in any one of the government buildings along the Mall today. — Peter F. Drucker

Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly. — Plato

At night in this waterless air the stars come down just out of reach of your fingers. — John Steinbeck

Up to a point, the weight and seriousness of such photographs survive better in a book, where one can look privately, linger over the pictures, without talking. Still, at some moment the book will be closed. The strong emotion will become a transient one. — Susan Sontag

Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better. — Seth Godin

My libido was doing the humpy dance while dressed in Milkbone pasties and a thong. — Nicole Peeler

As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in peace and harmony without the need for such instruments of security and separation — Pope Benedict XVI

And it was then that he began to fall in love with her for the second time... because he believed in broken things. — Amy Zhang

I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going. — Robert Redford