Simon Ramo Quotes

#1. The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy by natural disasters, like Katrina, through neglected climate protection.

Jurgen Trittin

#2. The only God who can lead you out of trouble when you are pursuing your dreams is the one who gave you that assignment. Neglecting him from your plans is tantamount to commitment of suicide.

Israelmore Ayivor

#3. To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.

Simon Ramo

#4. Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

James Buchan

#5. To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

Ronald Reagan

#6. That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. Never confuse determination with arrogance. Arrogance will look down on you, determination will run over you.

Grant McLachlan

#8. The eighteenth Century thought itself to be the age of reason; the nineteenth century thought itself to be the age of common sense while the twentieth century can only think of itself as the age of uncommon nonsense.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. In the beginning, a monkey evolutioned gay marriage.

Stephen Colbert

#10. Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.

John Gresham Machen

#12. I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

Orson Welles

#13. Aghast, Yasmeen gaped at her before looking to the duke. It's worse than I thought. Not just the Horde, not just the police- you're keeping company with someone who has principles.

Meljean Brook

#14. Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft