Shanken 1987 Quotes & Sayings

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with ... the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous. — George Bernard Shaw

A person that only looks to benefit from other people, usually ends up alone. — J.A. Perez

White is pure and simple and matches with everything. — Christian Dior

Every American is thus ingrained with the duty to look well, to seem fine, to exclude from the fabric of his or her normal life any evidence of decay and death and helplessness. The ethic I have outlined here is often called the ethic of success. I prefer to call it the ethic of avoidance. . . . Persons are considered a success not because they attain some remarkable goal, but because their lives do not betray marks of failure or depression, helplessness or sickness. When they are asked how they are, they really can say and really do say, "Fine . . . fine. — Richard Beck

If he desired an empire, he achieved it with me, for I would carve out every skin in my body and hand it over as states to his greater nation. — Jeni Dhodary

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis. — Thurgood Marshall

The modernist preference for high seriousness is replaced by the postmodernist preference for playfulness. — Dharanidhar Sahu

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that. — Bryan Brown

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization. — Ambrose Bierce

Enjoy your magic moment today. As it will not be here tomorrow. — Paulo Coelho

If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather use your gift to help others find their own way to strength. — Anthony Liccione

It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore