Sober Reflection Quotes

#1. On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century ... First of all, what style should I employ?

Umberto Eco

#2. Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!"
"Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.

Susanna Clarke

#4. Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

H.L. Mencken

#5. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

Neil Gaiman

#6. You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Charlie Munger

#7. Each of us should realize the importance of having a talk with our own soul

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Boys popped wheelies that landed very near the men, then exercised their audacity by requesting quarters to stop. "I could scuff your shoes for nothin'," they said, "but when a quarter's

Daniel Woodrell

#9. In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system.

Michael Parenti

#10. I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

Andre Rieu

#11. Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

Marianne Williamson

#12. This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

Julie Brown

#13. I haven't met anyone that made me want to stay with them, more than I wanted to go and rescue you.

Jillian Dodd

#14. I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

Richard Dawkins

#15. These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

Ahmed Ben Bella