John Thornton Goldman Sachs Quotes

#1. I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.

Leslie Jamison

#2. Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?

Hilary Mantel

#3. Nobody has the power to make you unhappy. Only you decide how happy you want to be.

Alinka Rutkowska

#4. The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

Bruce Sterling

#5. I could never be what she wanted. She thought I was like Cage and the right girl could tame me. It wasn't about that. I didn't need taming. I needed fucking saving.

Abbi Glines

#6. Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.

Jesse Ventura

#7. Let's light this fire one more time, Mike, and witness this great nation at its best.

Christopher Ferguson

#8. I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn't matter whether it's raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I'm riding a bike I know I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

Mark Cavendish

#9. I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc..

Voltaire

#10. Faith does not cease being active as it undertakes the process of rigorous thinking. One need not disavow the gifts of intellect in giving thought to their Giver

Thomas C. Oden

#11. There were
things, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only he
had lived so much alone that sometimes he forgot
he forgot. The light
had destroyed the assurance which had inspired him in the distant
shadows.

Joseph Conrad

#12. You were the one who gave me those boxers? I wondered where they came from, I wear those! Although I'm not a big fan of flannel, it gets a little hot down there, if you know what I mean.

Joel Madden

#13. Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

Andrew Young

#14. I'd rather throw a viper down my shirt front than hire a compensation consultant.

Charlie Munger