Platteeuw Yellow Quotes

#1. Socrates put it perfectly in financial matters at least: "The majority is always wrong.

Peter B. Lockhart

#2. The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

Walter Lippmann

#3. How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change by being told what to do. You only change through seeing what you have to do when you realize what your being is like.

Maurice Nicoll

#4. I'm done with men ... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Halle Berry

#5. What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#6. ...I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature.

Jonathan Swift

#7. A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

Tony Abbott

#8. When you're violent you undermine everything.

Chris Hedges

#9. The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

Ayn Rand

#10. More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful' - much more.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#11. Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?

George W. Bush

#12. The wisdom of spiritual direction is precisely that we refuse to stand between God and the person who so needs to hear God for himself, for herself.

Gordon T. Smith

#13. There are a lot of decisions we pass up on because we think, "You know what? That's just going to build - you know, maybe that's going to build me and not build the ministry and what I'm trying to do." So we pass up on a lot of opportunities.

Joel Osteen

#14. I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.

Nicollette Sheridan