Figwood Loop Quotes

#1. When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness ... I was right.

Gahan Wilson

#2. The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With the private property they have not succeeded, but they continue on the path of destruction of the family and the nation.

Vladimir Bukovsky

#3. Is it me," he says, "or does she seem a bit weird to you?

Beckie Stevenson

#4. I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

Bridget Riley

#5. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Norman Vincent Peale

#7. I didn't ask if you could read it,' he replies, still pleasant. 'Besides, words can lie. See beyond them.

Victoria Aveyard

#8. Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

Thomas Sowell