(918 quotes found)
“Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!”
W. Edwards Deming
“There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.”
David Letterman
“If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.”
Jeanette Winterson
“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
Tom Robbins
“You succeed at being a failure when you blame someone else.”
Jeffrey Benjamin
“The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?”
Judith Hayes
“Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you”
Stephen Vizinczey
“I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name”
Paula Poundstone
