George W Cecil Famous Quotes
"On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died"
George W Cecil Quotations
"When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph."
A Alvarez
"The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer."
Elias Canetti
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
Thomas Szasz
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
Martin Luther
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
Horace
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Clifton Fadiman
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling
"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes."
Fidel Castro
"Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing"
Casino
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf