Schapiro Effects Quotes & Sayings

It is in the face of all this visual chaos, so opposed to order and simplicity, that I suddenly, perhaps a little guiltily, recall my vow to simplify my life. When I made that promise I had in mind the image of the ancient Greek subsisting on a fragment of pungent cheese, coarse bread, a handful of sun-warmed olives, a little watered wine; a man who discussed the Good, the True, the Beautiful with grave delight, and piped clear music in a sylvan glade. But I feel the absence of hills clothed in myrtle and thyme; of the Great Mother, Homer's wine-dark sea. Good resolutions, it seems, require good scenery. — Guy Vanderhaeghe

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage? — Desiderius Erasmus

You're worth the investment in yourself and what you feel, you can and want to be — Mia Hamm

The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves. — Deepak Chopra

So one always starts a journey in a strange land
taking too many precautions, until one tires of the exertion and abandons care in the worst spot of all. — Graham Greene

The world is run largely by urban, sedentary males. The symbol of power is the chair. — Sam Keen

Dedicated to: You.
You were a total gentleman and a relief. And I believe that joy becomes you - you most certainly deserve it. — J.R. Ward

The hard thing isn't getting what you want, it's knowing what you want. — Marty Rubin

The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it. — Jeremy Irvine

I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It's like golf amnesia. — Matt Kuchar

[Arthur]
"Er ... Just how much did you have to drink?"
Merlin frowned at Arthur ... Both of him. — FayJay

It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family. — Thom Yorke

The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic. — Gavin Hood

She believes in the words of her fortune teller, but really, anyone could have told her that if you have to stop doing the thing you love, it will kill you. — Helen Humphreys

There's such a wide variation in tax systems around the world, it's difficult to imagine a harmonized CO2 tax that every country agrees to. That's not in the cards in the near term. But the countries that are doing the best job, like Sweden, are already doing both of these. I think that eventually we'll use both of them but we need to get started right away and the cap-and-trade is a proven and effective tool. — Al Gore