You try to make plans for people, and the people make other plans

Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

Marlene Dietrich

The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine.

Earle Birney

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Tennessee Williams

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

Terry Pratchett

If toast always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it

Steven Wright

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

Sena Jeter Naslund

From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.

George Nethercutt

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka, The Collected Aphor

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

John C. Calhoun

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

Marcel Proust

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls Who steals my purse steals trash 'tis something, nothing 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Michael Porter