Requisitions Dragon Quotes & Sayings

Our civilization overflows with charity - which is simply willingness to hand back to labor as generous gracious alms a small part of the loot from the just wages of labor. But of real help - just wages for honest labor - there is little, for real help would disarrange the system, would abolish the upper classes. She — David Graham Phillips

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

It wasn't meant to work with them, was it? He didn't know if he could try anymore. — Ann Brashares

Index investing outperforms active management year after year. — Jim Rogers

Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control. — Evan Sayet

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage. — Zhuangzi

She smiles at me and then goes over to stand in front of the light. She tells me one thing before she walks into that glowing warmth. "I'm not your mother, Mattie. — Apryl Baker

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary. — Anuj

[the writer] must copy, with his finite mind, the process of the infinite 'I AM. — John Gardner

People often ask whether I consider myself successful. I don't yet, because there's so much more I want to accomplish. I put more pressure on myself than anyone else can. — David Ulevitch

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace. — Daniel Barenboim