I don't think there's anything wrong with borrowing someone else's faith to get you through until you get enough on your own.
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Stefne Miller
When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine...
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Jennifer Egan
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
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Edgar Watson Howe
There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash...
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Henry Hazlitt
Preserving cultural diversity is considered a supreme virtue today, but the members of the diverse subcultures don't always see it that way. People have wants and needs, and when cultures rub shoulders, people in one culture are bound to notice when their neighbors are satisfying...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Cicero
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" Cicero, Orator, 46 BCBy way of...
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
