Remembering Deceased Quotes & Sayings

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years. — Albert Einstein

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name. — Alan Hirsch

To change the world you'll need a pen. — Donald Miller

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation. — Lawrence Durrell

[On her father's death:] Gone was the person who had known me better than anyone else on earth and who had loved and admired me unconditionally since the day I was born. — Jane Brody

A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else. — Arthur Smith

When the first task completes, consider whether to cancel the remaining tasks. If the other tasks are not canceled but are also never awaited, then they are abandoned. Abandoned tasks will run to completion, and their results will be ignored. Any exceptions from those abandoned tasks will also be ignored. — Stephen Cleary

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned. — Seth Klarman

I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing up, the problems of life. The dog looks at us and asks, 'Why am I here? What am I doing? Where am I going?' Those are the same questions we ask ourselves. People look at the paintings, and the paintings speak back to them. — George Rodrigue

I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous. — Cate Blanchett

Escape your situation through your mind and your actions. — Robert Kiyosaki