Reviseren Quotes & Sayings

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. — T.E. Lawrence

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes. — Dale Carnegie

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest. — Robert Payne

Do you know what the luckiest thing is?'
'No.'
'It is to be at home everywhere. — Ben Okri

I see no reason for resigning my right to that inventive freedom which others enjoy; and, as I have no truth to put on record, having lived a very humdrum life, I fall back on falsehood
but falsehood of a more consistent variety; for I now make the only true statement you are to expect
that I am a liar. — Lucian Of Samosata

The prize was really for the molecule. In 1962, Osamu Shimomura discovered a protein in a jellyfish that caused it to glow bright green. With colleagues, 30 years later, I was able to insert this G.F.P. gene into bacteria and make them turn green. — Martin Chalfie

The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth ... — Adrian Slywotzky

Cheapskates ... are too self-confident - and frankly too smart - to spend money on things they don't need and probably don't even want, simply to impress others or just because they can. — Jeff Yeager

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one. — Simone De Beauvoir

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention. — Sean Lennon

Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory. — Anton Chekhov

Billy Pilgrim tried hard to care. A — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.