You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
“never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself” — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though -… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down. — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement. — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal… — Laurence Kotlikoff Copy Share Image
Print works! It works as a business proposition - our print readers [of the Mother Jones] not only provide revenue in the… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you… — Steven Burd Copy Share Image
Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be… — Stuart Rose Copy Share Image
Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings,… — Willie Garson Copy Share Image
I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
If you are building a thirty-story building and you use worm-eaten wood for the frame, inferior structural supports, and other fourth-rate, low-grade… — Harvey Diamond Copy Share Image
What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Contrary to the rhetoric emanating from the American left, the 'rich' are currently paying a lot more than 'their fair share.' It… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image