Investible Surplus Quotes

#1. I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Igor Stravinsky

#2. My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always telling me what I should do.

Anna Quindlen

#3. It is the brave man's part to live with glory, or with glory die.

Sophocles

#4. There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Honore De Balzac

#5. People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.

Sakyong Mipham

#6. If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

Mark Foley

#7. Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

Joe Biden

#8. The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. I don't really think of myself or picture myself as a Hollywood person.

Josie Bissett

#10. I hate myself for liking you.

Stephenie Meyer

#11. Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. As things may turn out in the future, people may (though I doubt it) find that their work gives them all the enjoyment - physical, intellectual or aesthetic - which they may require. That certainly is not so now.

Louis MacNeice

#13. What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?

Yoshida Shoin

#14. Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

Barbara Bush