Tonetta Lake Quotes & Sayings

Statin drugs are meant to lower cholesterol in your blood. But there is an asymmetry, and a severe one. One needs to treat fifty high risk persons for five years to avoid a single cardiovascular event. Statins can potentially harm people who are not very sick, for whom the benefits are either minimal or totally nonexistent. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational — Rasheed Ogunlaru

There are cultures on Earth that are more alien than some of the aliens in SF. — Catherine Asaro

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Greek women were not allowed to be: free and untamed. In fact, Artemis is a bit of a paradox. On the one hand, her commitment to purity must have been greatly admired by Ancient Greeks; yet she is also untamable and answers to no man. She is truly the eternal wild child who never has to grow up and shoulder the responsibilities that adulthood brings. She never has to compromise herself or conform to any of society's standards. No wonder she is associated with the moon - completely untouchable, forever unattainable. If offered the option of becoming one of Artemis' immortal maidens, freed forever from the shackles of marriage or slavery, I think many Ancient Greek women would have jumped on that bandwagon as it careened past — Rick Riordan

I'm not the person you left behind anymore. There's no one here to miss. — Iain Thomas

no man really knows another man's heart, — Stephen King

Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy. — Rob Letterman

It was another of the Great Bastards: Ser Aegor Rivers, called Bittersteel. Perhaps it was his Bracken blood that made Aegor so choleric and so quick to take offense. Perhaps it was the ignominious fall of the — George R R Martin

The economic hardship of my family and of many others, a century ago, was caused by a monopoly, the American Tobacco Company, which had eliminated all competitors and thus was able to reduce as it pleased the prices it paid to farmers. The American Tobacco Company was the work of James B. Duke of Durham, North Carolina, and New York City, who, disregarding any other consideration, followed a capitalist logic to absolute control of his industry and, incidentally, of the economic fate of thousands of families such as my own. — Wendell Berry

There are things we really do not understand; and much more than this, there are things we really do not try to understand! — Mehmet Murat Ildan