Brantner Servicii Quotes

#1. She went to all the parties and kissed all the boys, shoring up fun against despair, against the suffocating terror that loomed over her.

Holly Black

#2. An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Norman Davies

#3. We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it.

John William McCormack

#4. As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive ... The unexpected is usually not received at all.

Peter Drucker

#5. I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.

Eugene Ionesco

#6. Obedience completes itself in understanding.

Phillips Brooks

#7. Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

Frederick Sommer

#8. The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

Ludwig Von Mises

#9. When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.

Meles Zenawi

#10. My hair can get quite dry, so I condition it in olive oil once a week.

Jerry Hall

#11. When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude.

Wallace D. Wattles

#12. Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.

Lesley Howarth

#13. Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Banking doesn't involve fraud, banking IS fraud.
(from video by Paul Grignon done for United Financial Consumers (2002) )
(Added to goodreads by Mike Tobin)

Tim Madden