Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. F. Schumacher

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

Ogden Nash

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Laurence J. Peter

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Scott Adams

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

Scott Adams

There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

Wernher von Braun

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Charles Dickens

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Charles Soule

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

Charles Stross

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

Charles Stanley

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Charles Spurgeon

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

Alan Watts

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Alan Watts

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

Alan Watts

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

Alan Watts

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Maajid Nawaz

I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

Will Rothhaar

Both of my parents are actors and directors and whatnot. My dad loves really solid, old school, Broadway musicals, and one of them is 'Assassins' by Stephen Sondheim. All of the successful or non-successful assassins that have ever existed in the United States come together, and they talk about their killing or attempts through songs.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings

Cristiano Ronaldo

I do not exchange my shirt with ASSASSINS

Charlie Sheen

We're Vatican assassins. How complicated can it be?

Francesco Rutelli

We must not recall our troops because a band of assassins have demanded it,

Jose Mujica

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.