“The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.”
Edward
“Hence the American dilemma. How do you convince lenders to lend when you can't even obey your own laws about spending limits? It's one thing to sell short-term debt with a respectable yield, but who will be willing to hold any American obligations - short- or long-term - as the nation's financing needs grow larger relative to its productivity?”
Dan Denning
“By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.”
Mark Twain
“Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be”
“We may not always oblige, but we may always speak obligingly”
Voltaire
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“In this house, we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics!”
Dan Castellaneta