Putnicka Quotes & Sayings

The first (lesson) which we meet again and again in history, is that once the dole or similar relief programs are introduced, they seem almost inevitably - unless surrounded by the most rigid restrictions - to get out of hand. The second lesson is that once this happens the poor become more numerous and worse off than they were before, not only because they have lost self-reliance, but because the sources of wealth and production on which they depend for either doles or jobs are diminished or destroyed. — Henry Hazlitt

Fiction is most effective when its themes are unspoken. An ideal fiction has a kind of thematic ghostliness, whereby the novel marks its meanings most strongly as it passes, as it disappears, rather as on a street snow gets dirtier, more marked, as it disappears. — James Wood

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop. — Murray Leinster

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. — George Combe

Like a horseman who reins in a wild stallion that has borne him, will he, nill he, across several counties; or a ship's captain who, after scudding before a gale through a bad night, hoists sail, and gets underway once more, navigating through unfamiliar seas- thus Dr. Daniel Waterhouse, anno domini 1685, watching King Charles II die at Whitehall Palace. — Neal Stephenson

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. — Karl Kraus

If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he'll make you BUSY. — Corrie Ten Boom

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem. — Tim Cook