Usurious Def Quotes & Sayings

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design. — Edward De Bono

The study of silence has long engrossed me. The matrix of a poet's work consists not only of what is there to be absorbed and worked on, but also of what is missing, desaparecido, rendered unspeakable, thus unthinkable. It is through these invisible holes in reality that poetry makes its way - certainly for women and other marginalized subjects and for disempowered and colonized peoples generally, but ultimately for all who practice any art at its deeper levels. The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken? — Adrienne Rich

Think not, O Mortal, vainly gay.
That Thou from Human Woes is free,
The bitter cup I drink today,
Tomorrow may be drunk by thee. — Jane Grey

Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue. — Sophia Lee

Boys did not go to work on the railroad simply because their fathers did. What fetched them were sights and sounds of moving trains, and above all the whistle of a locomotive. I've heard of the call of the wild, the call of the law, the call of the church. There is also the call of the railroad. — Gary Krist

Whatever happens, happens. — Keiko Nobumoto

You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build. — Ted Baillieu

If you've taken Econ 101, you know that the quantity of money rises only when the banking system makes a net loan. — Kenneth Fisher

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. — Tom Wolfe

You read everything - that's part of the job," he said. "You accumulate all this trivia, and you hope that someday maybe a millionth of it will be useful. — Walter Isaacson

The test of happiness is gratitude. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference. — John Landis

Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired. — James MacDonald

The kingdom of Aragon possessed an official known as the Justicia, for whom no exact equivalent is to be found in any country of western Europe. An Aragonese noble appointed by the Crown, the Justicia was appointed to see that the laws of the land were not infringed by royal or baronial officials, and that the subject was protected against any exercise of arbitrary power. The office of Justicia by no means worked perfectly, and by the late fifteenth century it was coming to be regarded as virtually hereditary in the family of Lanuza, which had close ties with the Crown; but none the less, the... — J.H. Elliott

Your style guide is your most loyal brand protector. — Dane Brookes