Certain Quote by Gertrude Atherton

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

— Ezra Pound

I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven…

— Naguib Mahfouz

“Suppose two thousand years ago, or even earlier, humanity learned that an alien invasion fleet would arrive a few thousand years later. What would…

— Liu Cixin

“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in…

— Chaim Potok

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative…

— Walter Benjamin

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of…

— Claire Messud

Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate…

— Warren Buffett

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an…

— Michael Lewis

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and…

— Albert Kesselring

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that…

— Marianne Williamson

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

— Jurgen Habermas