Sermersheim Nick Quotes & Sayings

Tennyson said that if we could understand a single flower we would know who we are and what the world is. Perhaps he meant that there is no deed, however so humble, which does not implicate universal history and the infinite concatenation of causes and effects. Perhaps he meant that the visible world is implicit, in its entirety, in each manifestation, just as, in the same way, will, according to Schopenhauer, is implicit, in its entirety, in each individual. — Jorge Luis Borges

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Dale Carnegie

I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration. — Edward Ruscha

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us. — Billy Graham

When Warren Buffett talks about competing against only half of the population, I think about her and wonder how different her life might have been if she had been born half a century later. — Sheryl Sandberg

Young Bob Lincoln and Elmer Ellsworth . . . were cutting up in the office, and Lincoln reproved them. Bob replied by quoting the well-known couplet

A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.

"So it is," said Lincoln; "that's the difference between the wise man and a fool, who relishes it all the time. — Emanuel Hertz