Zinesto Quotes & Sayings

The lines are all imagined. — James Mercer

The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints ... So far I've had no complaints. — Dorothy Parker

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. — Craig M. Mullaney

As soon as Russians feel the ground under their feet and are confident that they have reached firm ground, they are so delighted at reaching it that they rush at once to the furthest limit. Why is that? You are surprised at Pavlishtchev, and you put it down to madness on his part, or to simplicity. But it's not that! And Russian intensity in such cases is a surprise not to us only but to all Europe. If one of us turns Catholic, he is bound to become a Jesuit, and one of the most underground. If he becomes an atheist, he's sure to clamour for the extirpation of belief in God by force, that is, by the sword. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares for public morals. Circulate that word, and you find the tone of morals immediately changed. It is God peaking to man. — Matthew Simpson

He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty. — Alan Hollinghurst

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. — Peter F. Drucker

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight) — Peter S. Beagle

The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking. — Jeff Bezos