Shulie Mishkin Quotes & Sayings

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I don't want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don't love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can't get things done. — Henry Rollins

You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused on God ... To me the most beautiful thing anyone on earth can experience, other than maybe marriage and child-bearing, would be the Orthodox Liturgy. — Troy Polamalu

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.' — Shane Black

People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine. — Mark Twain

The rain has stopped, the air is mild, the sky slowly rolls up fine black images : it is more than enough to frame the perfect moment ; to reflect these images, she would cause dark little tides to be born in our hearts. I don't know how to take advantage of the occasion : I walk at random, calm and empty, under this wasted sky. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Much history as well as popular imagination not only erases their contingency but implicitly attributes to historical actors intentions and consciousness they could not have possibly had...Once a significant historical event is codified, it travels a sort of condensation symbol and, unless we are very careful, takes on a false logic and order that does a grave injustice to how it was experienced at the time. — James C. Scott

He understands that all beings have the power to free themselves from ignorance and unhappiness, but that they don't know it. How — Matthieu Ricard

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing. — Thomas Peterffy

The perfect world for me is to find some sort of inner peace. I believe that a man that walks with God can walk anywhere. — Immortal Technique

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms. — Viktor E. Frankl

I love Disneyland because the teacups are so awesome. But California Adventure is the best. — Joey King

When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off. — Gina McCarthy