Warren Who Ran Quotes & Sayings

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. — Michel De Montaigne

Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are. — Gemma Malley

Warren had a most unusual household. A recent widower with four children between the ages of two and eight, he was not only a leading patriot but also had one of the busiest medical practices in Boston. He had two apprentices living with him on Hanover Street, and he sometimes saw as many as twenty patients a day. His practice ran the gamut, from little boys with broken bones, like John Quincy Adams, to prostitutes on aptly named Damnation Alley, — Nathaniel Philbrick

The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation. — Laozi

If you can see it, then I can do it. If you have a vision for it, then I can make a way. I can open up new doors. I can bring the right people. I can give you the finances. I can break the chains holding you back. — Joel Osteen

In one memorable episode, Warren received a trusting note from a woman in the bookkeeping department via the library's pneumatic-tube system, which ran between the library and store. "It's very slow here on this rainy day," the bookkeeper complained. "Please send me one of those novels you have had to withdraw from circulation as unfit for a lady to read." Warren fulfilled the request and was surprised the next day to receive the book back, discreetly wrapped, with the message: "Blessings upon you! You're quite right. This is not fit for anybody to read. Please send another just like it. — Molly Guptill Manning

When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a very thankless position. And he did it because his mother had instilled in him, if you are someone who has the capacity to make a great change, you have the responsibility. — Howard Warren Buffett

It used to seem to me that my life ran on too fast,
and I had to take it slowly just to make the good parts last
But when you're born to run it's so hard to just slow down,
so don't be surprised to see me back in that bright part of town — Warren Zevon

Charlie and I would follow a buy-and-hold policy even if we ran a tax-exempt institution. — Warren Buffett

The America of opportunity is under assault. We once ran this country to benefit hardworking people who didn't have much, to grow a middle class, to create opportunities for our kids. We once held up the ideal that poor kids would get the same chances in life as everyone else. We once believed that opportunity was not a zero-sum game; more for me didn't have to mean less for you. We once believed that the greatest country on earth could bend our future toward more opportunity for more of our people. — Elizabeth Warren

The two guys who ran the place, always in Williamsburg hipster uniforms of short-sleeved shirts and neatly trimmed beards that looked stuck on with spirit gum, paid, as ever, no attention to anything but the food and the money. Tallow imagined that every night they counted their money and prided themselves on having not made eye contact with anything human. — Warren Ellis

Hemingway said:
'It don't come anymore.'
So where did it go? — William S. Burroughs

A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent ... sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country. — John Quincy Adams

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books. — John Rhys-Davies

I care about my quality of life and money. — Paula Creamer

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. — Dennis Prager

You ran away from an adorable Irishman who wanted to se you naked? — Christine Warren

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA. — Elon Musk