1920s Jazz Age Quotes

#1. He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds
thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

Theodore Parker

#2. Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come.

Diane Helbig

#3. I think that if you run a big company, you've got to, four or five times a year, just say, 'Hey team, look, here's where we're going.' If you do it 10 times, nobody wants to work for you. If you do it zero times, you have anarchy.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#4. Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

William Kennedy

#5. I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play ... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

Kim Gordon

#6. It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#7. Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

William Kennedy

#8. There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

M. Scott Peck

#9. If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#10. You will meet people in life who will just dislike you for no reason, not because there is anything wrong with you but because everything is going right for you. Until they master their own peace, they will always try to destroy yours.

Keysha Jade

#11. She cackles and her accent is so thick that I feel bad for the words coming out of her mouth.

Caroline Kepnes

#12. Even in warmest
glow
how cold my shadow

Kobayashi Issa

#13. If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It also has to look at cognition itself, something we have never done before in economics.

W. Brian Arthur