Triffin Paradox Quotes & Sayings

If you gotta scratch the itch, scratch it. Or, if you want to do away with the day job, scratch, itch or no! — Deb E. Howell

People talk about nightfall, or night falling, or dusk falling, and it's never seemed right to me. Perhaps they once meant befalling. As in night befalls. As in night happens. Perhaps they, whoever they were, thought of a falling sun. That might be it, except that that ought to give us dayfall. Day fell on Rupert the Bear. And we know, if we've ever read a book, that day doesn't fall or rise. It breaks. In books, day breaks, and night falls.
In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright and eager, absolutely and positively the last guest to leave the party, while the ground darkens, oozing night around your ankles, swallowing for ever that dropped contact lens, making you miss that low catch in the gully on the last ball of the last over. — Hugh Laurie

If you look within your heart, I am here, and you are free. — Ilchi Lee

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you. — Harvey Keitel

For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated ... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that (his trip to India around 1975, fh) I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful. — Robert Rauschenberg

We live in a culture of violence. — Bryant McGill

Never forget, Alexandros, that this flesh, this body, does not belong to us. Thank God it doesn't. If I thought this stuff was mine, I could not advance a pace into the face of the enemy. But it is not ours, my friend. It belongs to the gods and to our children, our fathers and mothers and those of Lakedaemon a hundred, a thousand years yet unborn. It belongs to the city which gives us all we have and demands no less in requital. — Steven Pressfield

I'm a Taurus, you know. A bull. I belong in a field. — Matt Roper

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil. — Baha'u'llah

On the other hand, you have different fingers. — Steven Wright

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret. — Andrew Fastow