The New Yorker Vol Xci Quotes & Sayings

And the '99 finals at the French - if I had won that one easily, no one would have talked about it. — Martina Hingis

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Beware: I'm unafraid to host a big spoiler party--a novel that can be truly "spoiled" by the summary of its plot is a novel that was already spoiled by that plot. — James Wood

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after? — George Santayana

Memories are nice, but dreams are better. — John Anthony Miller

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. — Lin Yutang

I'm afraid I just blued myself. — Tobias Funke

France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity. — Francois Hollande

There were few things more paralyzing than fear and worry, and she could not understand why other people - even Bonnie - withstood them so readily. The world was what it was, the future would be what it would be, and there was not much you could do to change either. So you did what you knew was right, you accepted the consequences, and you did not look back. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It seemed as if I were born to bring sorrow on all who befriended me, and that was the bitterest drop in the bitter cup of my life. — Harriet Jacobs