Diana Rankin Famous Quotes
"Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success."
Diana Rankin Quotations
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
Adam Smith
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Conan Doyle
"I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted-not my hand held by an old smoothie."
William Safire
"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive."
Henry Steele
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
"It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society."
Edward C Banfield
"I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'"
Igor Stravinsky
"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
Bernadette
"Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings."
Homer