Verbandkasten Quotes & Sayings

A lie by choice will force you to a thousand unavoidable lies. — M.F. Moonzajer

Oh no, Hulk alert. Not my chips! — Karina Halle

For no man is found so prudent as to know how to adapt himself to these changes, both because he cannot deviate from the course to which nature inclines him, and because, having always prospered while adhering to one path, he cannot be persuaded that it would be well for him to forsake it. And so when occasion requires the cautious man to act impetuously, he cannot do so and is undone: whereas had he changed his nature with time and circumstances, his fortune would have been unchanged. — Niccolo Machiavelli

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn. — Dolly Parton

When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people. — Sylvia Earle

Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed. — Henry A. Kissinger

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems. — Ramez Naam

I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be. — David Dobkin

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Successful people are action oriented and they have bigger libraries than TV's — Jim Rohn

That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people. — Clint Walker