All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
We have a whole other division, where we actually literally take the comic book and animate it. Our feeling was that, if… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Banks have come to realize in the recent crisis that they are paying the price for having designed compensation packages which provide… — Mervyn King Copy Share Image
The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I think, as a president, you have to want respect. You can't look for love from the American people. You have to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think my dad, when he works with my older son, puts the same kind ofpressure on him that he put on… — Floyd Mayweather, Jr Copy Share Image
I was speaking to a writer the other day and he gave me a valuable piece of advice. He said that you… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The foundational skills of snowboarding are what pay off in the long run. That's something I've been able to build over time… — Kelly Clark Copy Share Image
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest -- sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Start with changing behaviors, not mindsets. It is much easier to 'act your way into new thinking' than to 'think your way… — Jon Katzenbach Copy Share Image
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Under communism, prices were not allowed to reflect economic reality. Under capitalism, prices don't reflect ecological reality. In the long run, the… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image