Vicomtesse De Noailles Quotes & Sayings

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this for half an hour. It will be a change. — Jerome K. Jerome

On almost all issues, citizens could not identify the stands of the candidates
as intended. — Noam Chomsky

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back? — Ice Cube

Hindsight is especially unkind to decision makers who act as agents for others - physicians, financial advisers, third-base coaches, CEOs, social workers, diplomats, politicians. We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact. There is a clear outcome bias. When — Daniel Kahneman

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. — Tom Wilson

Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. — Christopher Morley

However, he couldn't stand the fortune cookies. His always read, "The fortune you seek is no fortune." Or "Love your neighbor, it keeps the community together." Or "Keep the dreams alive. Don't wake up — Carol Vorvain