Yardages To Zero Quotes & Sayings

no mathematical formula or econometric estimate can tell us exactly what tax rate ought to be applied to what level of income. Only collective deliberation and democratic experimentation can do that. — Thomas Piketty

I love people who play guitars on roofs!" said Rose, hopping along the pavement in one of her sudden happy moods. "Don't you?"
"Never knew anyone else who did it!"
"Don't you like Tom?"
"Of course I do. But I don't know about all the other guitar-on-roof players! They might be really awful people, with just that one good thing about them. Playing guitars on roofs ... or bagpipes ... Or drums ... Sarah would like that, and Saffy could have the bagpipes! Caddy could have a harp ... What about Mum?"
"One of those gourds filled with beans!" said Rose at once. "And Daddy could have a grand piano. On a flat roof. With a balcony and pink flowers in pots around the edge! And I'll have a very loud trumpet! What about you?"
"I'll just listen," said Indigo. — Hilary McKay

Pride counterbalances all these miseries; man either hides or displays them, and glories in his awareness of them. — Blaise Pascal

Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story. — Nicholas Sparks

Fear is just one of the many words I don't know the meaning of. — John Wayne

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility. — Isabel Paterson

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry. — Sam Kinison

A senior Israeli intelligence officer explained that the IDF attacked "both aspects of Hamas - its resistance or military wing and its dawa, or social wing," the latter a euphemism for the civilian society. — Noam Chomsky

Just remember to keep your eye out for ways to maximize your schedule freedom in the long term. — Scott Adams

human beings are not single egos but are instead composed of multiple ego states. multiple personality disorder is only a pathological expression of a general condition — Stephen Harrod Buhner

Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel but separate universes. — Eli Pariser

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right. — Mark Twain