Storpio Quotes & Sayings

Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they're likely to increase prices, since they've learned that if they don't, and inflation hits, their businesses will be wrecked. — James Surowiecki

Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years. — Amy Leach

What would a loss of confidence in the dollar actually look like? Gold going absolutely nuts. — Paul Singer

In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith. — John William Draper

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. — Jodi Picoult

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. — David Brainerd

You are to my soul what God is to a mother praying for her child at the altar. — Malak El Halabi

It's weird and normal and hot and sad and strange and I don't really want to let go. — Colleen Hoover

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. — Peter F. Drucker

Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette. That is not just an idle metaphor: the risk that a country in the bottom billion falls into civil war in any five-year period is nearly one in six, the same risk facing a player of Russian roulette. — Paul Collier

If we do not start doing something towards the fulfillment of our dream or,it will never come to pass — Sunday Adelaja

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. — O. Henry

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep. — Matt Ridley

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense. — Michael Glawogger