Scadenza Quotes & Sayings

This led Montesquieu to become one of the earliest proponents of the trade theory of peace when he observed that hunting and herding nations often found themselves in conflict and wars, whereas trading nations "became reciprocally dependent," making peace "the natural effect of trade." The psychology behind the effect, Montesquieu speculated, was exposure of different societies to customs and manners different from their own, which leads to "a cure for the most destructive prejudices." Thus, he concluded, "we see that in countries where the people move only by the spirit of commerce, they make a traffic of all the humane, all the moral virtues. — Michael Shermer

I do comedy for real people. — Tracy Morgan

My opportunity to design school choice systems began in 2003 with a phone call from Jeremy Lack at the New York City Department of Education. He knew of my work on the medical match and wondered if similar efforts might help reorganize the dysfunctional, congested system then used to match students to high schools. — Alvin E. Roth

He referred to you as his little snack."
"He's a sweetie. — Ilona Andrews

It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

I don't trust nobody that don't have my name tattooed on her ass, and then it's iffy. — Lois Greiman

I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage. — Jonathan Silverman

I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there. — Benjamin Carson

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster. — James Patterson

I do not know that everything happens for a reason. I simply know that everything happens. — Erin Loechner

18 So that day Jehovah made this covenant with Abram: "I have given this land to your descendants from the Wadi-el-Arish[*] to the Euphrates River. 19-21 And I give to them these nations: Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, Jebusites. — Anonymous

I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want. — Mariella Frostrup