Slovomol Quotes & Sayings

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn. — Agnes Repplier

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The Republican Party is slightly ahead of Democrats when it come to devaluing any traditional understanding of foreign and national security policy. This is not surprising, because in all other matter of public policy, the GOP has strictly subordinated practical governance and problem solving to the emotional thematics of an endless political campaign. Whether the topic is Iran, Russia, or the proper level of defense spending at a time of high deficits, the GOP's stance has little to do with the merits of the situation; it is a projection of domestic political sloganeering. Taking a position on anything, whcther it be Ukraine or the efficacy of drones, boils down to a talking-point projection of focus groups-tested emotional themes: strength versus weakness, standing tall versus cutting and running, acting versus thinking." pp. 157-158 — Mike Lofgren

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. — William Safire

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past. — Murray Walker

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously ... — Arthur Conan Doyle

The half is greater than the whole. — Hesiod

Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years. — Louis L'Amour

I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies. — George Singleton

and the tumescence of O.N.A.N.ism. — David Foster Wallace

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is — Elbert Hubbard

No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect. — Lokendra Singh

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand. — George Eliot

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little. — Aristotle.

Money isn't like mushrooms in a forest - it doesn't just pop up on its own, you know. — Haruki Murakami