August Von Mackensen Quotes

#1. Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.

Phil Gramm

#2. Randy Wittman told me not to shoot 3-pointers. That got me very uncomfortable. There were certain labels tagged on me very early in my career, spots on the floor where I felt uncomfortable.

Kevin Love

#3. ...it's more meaningful to me to see women who don't necessarily need to articulate how they're feminists, they just exhibit it with everything they do.'
-Una, Twenty-five, Park Slope

Nona Willis Aronowitz

#4. I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

Ziyi Zhang

#5. The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

C.S. Lewis

#7. Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#8. I like 'fresh fruit flan'," said the donkey. "Three excellent words."
"I don't have one," said Noah immediately before the question could even be asked, and the donkey opened his eyes wide in suprise, and for a moment Noah wondered whether he might even consider eating him.

John Boyne

#9. It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Don Meyer

#10. The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

Plutarch

#11. For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.

Elizabeth Blackburn