Takowsky Pacific Lipo Quotes & Sayings

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Do what you can to help people but have the wisdom to accept your limits. — Bryant McGill

Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done. — Tracy Kidder

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence. — William Burton Pope

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity. — Jackie Robinson

As the old proverb says: Well-fed horses don't rampage. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Part of the lore of the Mirage poker room was the four-day $600-$1,200 game Ted played with Hamid Dastmalchi, the 1992 World Champion and a man similarly possessed of a cast-iron constitution. At the end of it, Dastmalchi was taken out of the Mirage in an ambulance. Forrest joked that it was all the bad beats he showed Hamid, but it may have had more to do with the estimated fifty packs of cigarettes Dastmalchi smoked during the game. — Michael Craig