He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Ludwig von Mises

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

Minoru Yamasaki

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Warren Buffett

We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Rich Pilon

The sands are number'd that make up my life.

William Shakespeare

I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.

Kingsley Amis

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Nicholas Boileau

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Walter Pater

The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

Albert Goldman

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

Eartha Kitt

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.

Alexander Pope

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter