Svjetska Banka Quotes & Sayings

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings. — Benjamin Graham

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. — Anne Rice

2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to try to get business away from another man - criminal because one is then trying to lower for personal gain the condition of one's fellow man - to rule by force instead of by intelligence. — Henry Ford

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act. — Louise Brooks

The Bronx? No Thonx! — Ogden Nash

It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down. — Drake

I love Twitter. It doesn't keep me from writing and I think it's a really convenient scapegoat when the truth is that the real issue is self-control. I am totally fine admitting i have none. I'm not going to blame Twitter for affecting my writing. And also, Twitter doesn't affect my writing. — Roxane Gay

They're never technically tapes, but they're always called mix tapes anyway, just because tapes are always cool. — Rob Sheffield

You have to be a great liar to write fiction, a real historical revisionist. — M. Pierce

When I took my oath of office to serve as your Governor, remember, I swore to steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests of this great state like a grizzly with cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. Alaska, as a statewide family, we've got to fight for each other, not against and not let external, sensationalized distractions draw us off course. As an exciting year of unpredictable change begins, we, too, have our work cut out for us. And we're all in this together. Just like our musk ox, they circle up to protect their future when they are challenged. We've got to do the same. — Sarah Palin

Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else's. — Robert M. Pirsig

You worked for Walmart, Nestle, De Beers, or some other corporate monster. You were wealthy but you often bathed me in pennies. Melted pennies. I let you because I thought you were infallible. I drank molten copper because you told me to. I would do anything you asked me to. — Logan Ryan Smith

To men and women everywhere Jesus says, "Come unto me, and I will give you rest." The rest He offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief which comes when we accept ourselves for what we are and cease to pretend. — A.W. Tozer

I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it. — Domhnall Gleeson

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. — Anonymous