Quinto Elemento Quotes & Sayings

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. — James Thurber

Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests. — George Washington

ideas are the new currency — Claudia Azula Altucher

he later made the tobacco companies pay: over $200 billion to Mississippi and forty-five other states as compensation for Medicaid costs arising from tobacco-related illnesses. The case (immortalized in the film The Insider) made Scruggs a rich man. His fee in the tobacco class action is said to have been $1.4 billion, or $22,500 for every hour his law firm worked. — Niall Ferguson

I'm happy to get up in the morning. — Kim Coles

By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me. — Bryce Harper

In madness lies change, in change is opportunity, and in opportunity are riches. — Bernard Cornwell

He says a word,
and I say a word - autumn
is deepening. — Kyoshi Takahama

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape. — Khalil Gibran

The world is inviolable: it has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to change it will be changed. — Malinda Lo

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house. — Ellen Hopkins

Mr Vimes," said Mrs Winkings, "ve cannot help but notice that you still haf not employed any of our members in the Vatch ... "
Say 'Watch', why don't you? Vimes thought. I know you can. Let the twenty-third letter of the alphabet enter your life. — Terry Pratchett

It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay. — Melvin Konner

The only explanation I can think of is that he is insane, and there are so many insane people in the world that it isn't even interesting. — Jean Webster