Pistoia Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy. — C.S. Lewis

Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish. — Robin Williams

Many thinkers have tried to "naturalize" consumerism in that way, including most social Darwinists, Austrian School economists (Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard), Chicago School economists (George Stigler, Milton Friedman, Gary Becker), Darwinian libertarians, globalization advocates, management gurus, and marketers. Their model (which I call the Wrong Conservative Model, because I think it's wrong, and because it's usually advocated by political conservatives) is: human nature + free markets = consumerist capitalism — Geoffrey Miller

I realized I was good at developing young people. Eventually I started to believe in young people. I think when you give a young person an opportunity, he always believes who gave him his first chance. You create a loyalty that lasts a lifetime. — Alex Ferguson

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. — Sophocles

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am. — Jonathan Davis

My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the I began investing outside of the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge. — Philip Arthur Fisher

During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country. — Fritz Haber

He paused in his gyrations to give Schwartz a high five. "I'm wearing my cap askew," [Owen] said. — Chad Harbach

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable. — Starhawk

20. Lack of concentration of effort. The "jack-of-all-trades" seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim. — Napoleon Hill

But having the independence of mind and the strength of personality to defend your work in front of the most incisive aeronautical minds --- that is what got you noticed.... That's what marked you as someone who should move ahead. — Margot Lee Shetterly

My mum dated a guy from Liverpool. The Liverpool fans made up a song that she 'loves Scouse c*ck' — John Terry