Penguin Bulletin Board Sayings

#1. All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.

Victor Ponta

#2. They don't understand why I want to take such a risk. These reactions don't surprise me. A transformation, especially one that is deliberately sought, is often perceived as something disloyal, threatening.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Henry Miller

#4. Half talent is no talent.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#5. What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Nulla dies felix - call no day fortunate till it be ended.

Ford Madox Ford

#7. Derek was telling her something about a hand in a box. It was a dead hand. Why the hell did he have to bring it to me right this second? Was it going anywhere?

Gordon Andrews

#8. Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8.

Brad Pitt