Sliepenbeek Quotes & Sayings

Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with the penalties for poor short-term performance, the long-term view may well be from the unemployment line ... Relative-performance-oriented investors really act as speculators. Rather than making sensible judgments about the attractiveness of specific stocks and bonds, they try to guess what others are going to do and then do it first. — Seth Klarman

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue. — Isabel Allende

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. — Blaise Pascal

God isn't afraid of our doubts; He's way more concerned when we fake it. — Bob Goff

All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them open by philosophy or thinking. Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes. Let God's truth work in you by soaking in it, not by worrying into it. Obey God in the thing He is at present showing you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. We read tomes on the work of the Holy Spirit when ... five minutes of drastic obedience would make things clear as a sunbeam. We say, "I suppose I shall understand these things some day." You can understand them now: it is not study that does it, but obedience. The tiniest fragment of obedience, and heaven opens up and the profoundest truths of God are yours straight away. God will never reveal more truth about Himself till you obey what you know already. Beware of being wise and prudent. — Oswald Chambers

I suppressed another shiver - I did not want Zachary taking off any more clothes on my account. — Jeri Smith-Ready

He came down the nave, walking with his graceful stride, dangerous and tear-stained. — Laura Kinsale

What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate and a dead skunk and I don't want to be either, — John Ashcroft

The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders. — Philip French

Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at. — Geraldine Brooks

Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you. — Lenny Bruce

Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them. — Buzz Aldrin

Besides, your imagination often plays tricks on you in moments of danger. — Anne Frank

If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past. — Michael Gove

Whether you are a medical doctor or a chiropractor or another type of healer, life has a challenge that you have to be egoless. You have to just become, without self, a healer at that moment, for that purpose. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi