Siniestros Qualitas Quotes & Sayings

Mysterium tremendum et fascinans
that stomach- flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination. — Abundance Of Katherines John Green

To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other. — Julian Fellowes

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law. — Ray Dalio

When we come to worship the God and Father of us all and to partake of the sacrament symbolizing the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we should be as comely and respectful, as dignified and appropriate as we can be. We should be recognizable in appearance as well as in behavior that we truly are disciples of Christ. — Jeffrey R. Holland

I am sorry I have wasted (and still waste) so much time; I am sorry to be as agonizingly shy at eighty as I was at twenty; I am sorry that I speak no languages but my mother tongue and that I have not traveled or experienced other cultures as widely as I should have done. — Oliver Sacks

We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future. — Brian Roberts

The spirit is the thing I most love about my kind of geekdom. — Felicia Day

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish. — William Makepeace Thackeray

So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing. — Clarice Lispector

Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought. — Studs Terkel

This threshhold is mine ... Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I don't give a damn. None shall pass.
-Ganner Rhysode — Matthew Woodring Stover

For a moment, she stood transfixed, conscious of all the eyes that were staring at her, some admiringly, others lasciviously. Then she began to dance. Gracefully & nimbly, not vulgarly. There was no need to separate her thighs & wrench open her cup to display her hymen. Such an act would be unbecoming for a Goddess. Thus, she danced as the Goddess Artemis would, or the Goddess Hebe would, or the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite, herself would, dance with the Graces in the gardens of Olympus.[MMT] — Nicholas Chong

This implies two very strange rules for VCs. First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund. This is a scary rule, because it eliminates the vast majority of possible investments. (Even quite successful companies usually succeed on a more humble scale.) This leads to rule number two: because rule number one is so restrictive, there can't be any other rules. — Peter Thiel