Valinch And Mallet Quotes & Sayings

Concentrated power is bad"

"(name of chapter) — William J. Federer

We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e.g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere. — Paul Goodman

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little. — Maurice Ravel

I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to. — Yves Behar

MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal. — Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it. — Leslie Parrish

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory. — Cate Blanchett

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. — Walter Lippmann

I just hope we figure out a way to pull all this off. Without dying. Dark — Pittacus Lore

People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd. — J. P. Morgan

The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else. — Stephen Leacock