Thurgarton Quotes & Sayings

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent, — Seth Klarman

What are you watching?" he asked them. "Shhhh," Maggie said. Delia said, "They're watching a good looking man working on a home improvement project without being nagged into it." "It's like our porn," Hannah said, — Pamela Grandstaff

We're peculiar," he replied, sounding a bit puzzled. "Aren't you? — Ransom Riggs

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice. — Sadhu Vaswani

I don't have time is the worst possible excuse for I'd rather be doing something else. You MAKE time! Whether it be family, friends or an activity, like reading it's all in what you WANT to do. The heartbreaking moment is when you have extended time & devotion sometimes years with someone you knew to be worthy who can return it & they CHOOSE not to. — Gypsie M. Holley

In my game, there are a lot of nine-hour flights here, there, and everywhere for work, so I prefer to take a shorter plane journey somewhere hot - just for fun. — Katie Price

Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them. — George Bernard Shaw

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of. — David D. Burns

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old, — Chuck Berry

Anything you try to quantify can be divided into any number of "anythings," or become the thing - the unit - itself. And what is any number, itself, but just another unit of measurement? What is a 'six' but two 'threes', or three 'twos' ... half a 'twelve', or just six 'ones' - which are what?
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson) — Mort W. Lumsden

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally. — Anthony Marra