Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich List

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

Frederick W. Smith

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tell that to the Marines!

George Farquhar

One may like the love and despise the lover.

George Friedman

A research division develops marketing material for its deal makers. We have no policy position. If you have a policy position you can't possibly forecast.

George Gilder

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

George Foreman

As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.

Jon M. Chu

I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.

Jon Ronson

Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

Jon Ronson

Capitalism, at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

Jon Landau

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Jon Foreman

There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.

Jon Bon Jovi

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

Jon Bon Jovi

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

Johnny Miller

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

Johnny Carson

Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.

Lynn Redgrave

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Lynn Redgrave

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All mathematics is tautology.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

There can never be surprises in logic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Lu Xun

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

Luc de Clapiers

Few maxims are true in every respect.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

May the gods have mercy on whoever pisses them off, because Zarek and Jericho will have none for them. (Madoc) You’d better be glad I’m flattered by that. Otherwise I’d gut you. (Zarek) Ditto. (Jericho)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Lady, right now you could tell me to throw myself under a bus to make you happy, and I’d oblige you. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master [Acheron]

Sherrilyn Kenyon

With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera)