Whileiwait Quotes & Sayings

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy. — Viggo Mortensen

Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius. — Mo Ibrahim

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron. — Jake M. Johnson

For instance, Objectivists will often hear a question such as: "What will be done about the poor or the handicapped in a free society?" The altruist-collectivist premise, implicit in that question, is that men are "their brothers' keepers" and that the misfortune of some is a mortgage on others. The questioner is ignoring or evading the basic premises of Objectivist ethics and is attempting to switch the discussion onto his own collectivist base. Observe that he does not ask: "Should anything be done?" but: "What will be done?" - as if the collectivist premise had been tacitly accepted and all that remains is a discussion of the means to implement it. Once, when Barbara Branden was asked by a student: "What will happen to the poor in an Objectivist society?" - she answered: "If you want to help them, you will not be stopped. — Anonymous

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. — James Ellroy

If one isn't parsimonious before Christmas one can't be munificent when it arrives. — Grace S. Richmond