Valdespino Fino Quotes & Sayings

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English. — Gong Li

Using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results. — Charlie Munger

According to the Mayans, the world is supposed to end in the year 2012. Are you buying that? When's the last time you even ran into a Mayan? — Jay Leno

A leader is anyone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. — Brene Brown

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. — Nate Silver

Archers stood together, no matter what. Not even frilly-smelling laundry could tear them apart. — Karen Witemeyer

Edward, it will take time to find a willing and acceptable match, won't it? Decent men do not hang about at crossroads just waiting for ruined women to take them home. — Victoria Dahl

I hear Canada is still free though. They ain't got slaver camps and ships. — Tara Brown

I stopped knowing what to fight against."
"May you find some measure of happiness in your surrender. May we all. — Kiersten White

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars. — William Styron

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out. — Joseph Campbell

There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made ... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan'. — Steven Spielberg

(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation. — Lewis Mumford

Unfortunately, most of today's women resemble bowerbirds that force
suitors to build elaborate nests of twigs, leaves, and discarded garbage before choosing a mate. Any male who doesn't meet her standards doesn't get to mate that year; one assumes he just stays in his bower, reads bower manuals, and watches bowerbird porn. — Stephen Colbert