Ruusuvuori E Quotes & Sayings

But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard. — James G. Frazer

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art. — Anne Truitt

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors. — Queen Elizabeth II

Yep," I said proudly, and kind of sniffed like Barney Fife when he was allowed to load his pistol. — Ronnie Ray Jenkins

I pondered on this desert hospitality and, compared it with our own. I remembered other encampments where I had slept, small tents on which I had happened in the Syrian desert and where I had spent the night. Gaunt men in rags and hungry-looking children had greeted me, and bade me welcome with the sonorous phrases of the desert. Later they had set a great dish before me, rice heaped round a sheep which they had slaughtered, over which my host poured liquid golden butter until it flowed down on to the sand; and when I protested, saying 'Enough! Enough!', had answered that I was a hundred times welcome. Their lavish hospitality had always made me uncomfortable, for I had known that as a result of it they would go hungry for days. Yet when I left them they had almost convinced me that I had done them a kindness by staying with them — Wilfred Thesiger

More often than not, what stirs the imagination is best kept in the imagination, and Gwyn is aware of that, she is wise enough to know that the distance between thought and deed can be enormous, a gulf as large as the world itself. — Paul Auster

Some might question whether it makes sense to talk about setting up the experiment and running it again with exactly the same conditions--that it is, in fact, impossible. Locally, you might get the conditions exactly the same, but you have to embed the experiment in the universe, and that has moved on. You can't rewind the wave function of the universe and rerun it. The universe is a one-time-only experiment that includes us as part of its wave function, and there's no going back. — Marcus Du Sautoy

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism. — Bruce Sterling

The old outcast gape the darkness and said: "The lonely man is a fire without fireplace ... ". — Alexandar Tomov

I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do. — Jonathan Turley

Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest. — Frederick Lewis Allen

He fucks me like he means it — J.M. Darhower

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. — William Safire

Formal education will earn you a living. Self-education will earn you a fortune." Jim Rohn — Joanna Penn

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. — Christopher Hitchens