Wenceslao Fernandez Quotes & Sayings

When you have your revenue streams set up the right way, you can be confident the dollars are rolling in no matter what — Desmond Ong

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect. — Daniel Gilbert

They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived. — Irving Stone

If the kid is in a bubble, what happens if they can't get fresh
oxygen, won't they suffocate? — Alanea Alder

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. — Lucinda Franks

Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial. — Pamela Erens

To succeed in this competition means finding yourself in a place where you call the shots and gets the gain. This is not an easy feat, unless you are born into it. if you are not, you will need to out-smart your equals. You need to be more ambitious than they are. You need to work harder. You need to look better and smarter. You need to justify why it should be you and not them. It's a competition. — Emi Iyalla

Nothing can appear more contradictory than the principles on which the old governments began, and the condition to which society, civilisation and commerce are capable of carrying mankind. Government, one the old system, is an assumption of power, for the aggrandisement of itself; on the new, a delegation of power for the common benefit of society. The former supports itself by keeping up a system of war; the later promotes a system of peace, as the true means of enriching a nation. The one encourages national prejudices; the other promotes universal society, as the means of universal commerce. The one measures its prosperity, by the quantity of revenue it extorts; the other proves its excellence, by the small quantity of taxes it requires. — Thomas Paine

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.' — Joe Garagiola

I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present. — Victoria Azarenka