Schliesing 235 Quotes & Sayings

My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero. — Marc Faber

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in. — Mary Astell

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam. — Bill O'Reilly

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time. — Paul Dickson

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure. — L. Neil Smith

Your purpose is to be yourself. You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else. You are wonderful just as you are. — Thich Nhat Hanh

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress. — John Marshall

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come. — Colum McCann

It is the first prophecy of the church. — J. Dwight Pentecost

There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places. — Bengt I. Samuelsson

Torture the data, and it will confess to anything, as — Ben Goldacre

If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time. — Elle Macpherson