Thanoglous Quotes & Sayings

If we acted, nobody would thank us. But if we did not act, who would? Making politically unpopular decisions for the long-run benefit of the country is the reason the Fed exists as a politically independent central bank. It was created for precisely this purpose: to do what must be done - what others cannot or will not do. — Ben S. Bernanke

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old. — Clyde Tombaugh

Tomorrow I too - this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself - yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks the streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder what's become of him?' And everything I do, everything I feel, everything I experience, will be just one less passer-by on the daily streets of some city or other. — Fernando Pessoa

I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare. — Werner Herzog

I enjoy real people, down-to-earth people who are true to themselves and honest to your face - good or bad. — Christina Aguilera

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. — Robbie Williams

My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets. — Keri Hilson

Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can write a novel about New York and people from the country will read it if they feel that you've made them familiar with New York. — Stephen King

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that. — Simon Pegg

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here. — Hugo Chavez

The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work. — Steven Pressfield

What do you know of my heart, priestess? What do you know of my sister? — George R R Martin

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. — Norton Juster