Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scottie Somers

To succeed we must endure mental and physical pain.

Serge Gainsbourg

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

Oscar Wilde

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Edmund White

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

John Fiske

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.

Menander of

Marriage, if truth be told (of this be sure), An evil is - but one we must endure

Gerald R. Ford

One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.

Geoffrey Chaucer

For profit would I all his lust endure

Lord Chesterfield

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

Arthur Conan Doyle

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Bryant H. McGill

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Bryant H. McGill

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Anton Chekhov

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

Dana Gioia

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.

Susan Sontag

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

John Webster

Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

Irving Babbitt

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Bill Vaughan

The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.

Graham Greene

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

Isaac Marion

We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.

Francis Quarles

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Erik Zabel

Now I too can profit from the train which is at Petacchi's disposition,

David Briggs

Tech stocks have done better recently, so it could be some profit taking.

Robert Blake

precluded from any recovery because he may not profit from his own intentional, willful ... wrongdoing.

James Awad

You're seeing some profit taking in these areas.

Tim Biggam

Today's sell-off is simply profit taking and valuation realignment,

Shaffi Mather

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering,

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.