(477 quotes found)
“We believe that according the name "investors" to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a "romantic”
Warren Buffett
“It reminds me of a piece of jade. The emerald light coming from within is refracted and dispersed according to the consistency of the impurities that gave it its quality.”
Thomas D'Evelyn
“Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.”
Bobby Bragan
“The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.”
Vaclav Havel
“Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man”
William Howard Taft
“All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.”
Casey Stengel
“A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l”
John Allen Paulos
“If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.”
Aristotle
“For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: / Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; / Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.”
Bible
“My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.”
Charles V
