Redburn Partners Quotes & Sayings

Never relinquish the initiative. — Charles De Gaulle

You do not want to live in a country ruled by people who never have any doubts. To have doubts is human. A horse has no doubts, a grasshopper has no doubts, an ant has no doubts. But a human being stops to think sometimes, and when he thinks, he hears a voice asking quietly, 'Are you certain that you are right? You must be certain before you pull that trigger. You must be certain before you put your knife to that man's throat.'
Would God have given us the power to question if he wanted us to behave like grasshoppers and ants? I am sure God takes pleasure in all the creatures of the world, but I am also sure that his greatest pleasure is a human being who puts his knife away because he is not sure, because a doubt has come into his mind. — Najaf Mazari

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king. — Alexander Pope

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. — Wislawa Szymborska

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. — Douglas MacArthur

I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s. — Jesse Eisenberg

You've just got to get in the starting gate and throw down whatever you've got. — Ted Ligety

A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves. — Jane Hirshfield

I love Rob Zombie - I'd love to work with Rob Zombie or John Cameron Mitchell. — Guillermo Diaz

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves? — Jeanne Moreau

People like me are blamed for curiosity; having lost part of our lives, we are apt to fill the gap from the lives of others. In this I am like the rest, and make no pretences. — Mary Renault

[O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, tender consciences under cure, and less empty speculation and dispute (336-7). — Richard Baxter

My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger. — Jamie Dimon