Potaka Video Quotes & Sayings

We have a huge family history with Singapore because we have the duty-free shops in the airports. It's a very industrious city. It's beautiful, and Singaporeans have this wonderful desire for, and love of, luxury goods. You can see how well thought out and planned the city is with the best boutiques. — Marie-Chantal Claire

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet. — Thomas Carlyle

At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment. — Lord Chesterfield

I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children. — Lucy Robinson

Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case. — Jack Abramoff

Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. — George W. Bush

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people? — Richard J. Daley

It had been a long time since I'd felt any desire to truly inflict pain upon another person. I tend to take the long view on dealing with irritating people - as in, I'm going to outlive whoever irritates me, so the problem will eventually go away. I had privately changed "This, too, shall pass" into "You, too, shall die," and it helped me avoid all sorts of conflict. — Kevin Hearne

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now. — Jennifer Pahlka

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom. — Lord Chesterfield

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left. — Sarah Vowell

Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place. — Brian Tracy