Zijkant Van Quotes & Sayings

What is apparent is not always what is true. — Mark Helprin

Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively. — Jeff Jordan

I love shark week, all kids swim for free — Josh Stern

The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well. — Claire Cross

Sexy is kind of like an aura around someone. — Shane West

The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence. — Pope John Paul II

Sometimes being strong means being able to forgive. — Me

Show me a chief executive who's on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities - and I'll show you a company that's underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That's the CEO's job. — Albert J. Dunlap

Remember, nobility knows no race or station. Always judge a man by his heart and actions. — Lorna Seilstad

I've forgotten more about music than I ever knew ... — Rob Schwimmer

When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work. — Swami Vivekananda

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. — Bertrand Russell

And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.' — Scott Walker

Howard Dean dropped out of the race today. At least he can't claim his voice wasn't heard. — Jay Leno

As the distinguished British philosopher Isaiah Berlin wrote as he reflected on the bitter lessons of the twentieth century, 'Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth, especially about how to live, what to be and do - that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing. It is terrible and dangerous arrogance to believe that you alone are right, have a magical eye which sees the truth, and that others cannot be right if they disagree. — Thomas Gilovich