Sparer Quotes & Sayings

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business. — Gary Cohn

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off. — Clive Sinclair

Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything?"
"Plenty of time," he said softly.
"Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic?"
"Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid. — Maya Banks

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do. — G.I. Gurdjieff

Writers are liars trying to come clean. That's why the best ones are the most tragic. — Anthony Marais

Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date. — Roger Von Oech

Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one. — Rob Sheffield

I think every actor should direct at least once and vice versa. — Hart Bochner

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud. — James Purdy

Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality — Jorge Luis Borges

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him. — Steven Erikson

I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me. — J. Cole

The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous ... God's grace alone can accomplish such a thing. — Ron Paul

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live. — Voltaire

The dictatorship of hate has by now completely vanquished the democracy of pleasure. — Angelos Michalopoulos