Scalable Capital Quotes & Sayings

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences. — Friedrich Nietzsche

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably. — Ezra Pound

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing. — Sharon Salzberg

Sometimes life is weird. You just have to deal with the weirdness and hope that you find some weirdos who will move forward with you. — Brittainy C. Cherry

Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives. — Gautama Buddha

His breath halted as he stared at her. Why hadn't he seen it before? The woman in his carriage, the one who'd emerged from his carriage like a Botticelli Venus, was beautiful.
Not in the way Cassandra had been beautiful, with glittering eyes and full, red lips. Cassandra's blond beauty might have faded in time, become handsomeness instead.
This woman's beauty was simple; well-defined cheekbones, a high forehead, slender nose, and stubborn chin. As the years passed she might grow even more attractive.
He suspected that her laugh would captivate, just as her tears would act like a razor to whomever brought them forth. Her smile had already charmed him, and now her silence incited his curiosity. Not about who she was and why she was here, but about more.
Who was the woman behind the smile? — Karen Ranney

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time. — H.L. Mencken