Sumacs Shrubs Quotes

#1. Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in.

Jerzy Kosinski

#3. Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.

Farah Diba

#4. My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Brooke Shields

#5. A devotion to principle, whether that principle makes much sense to the rest of us, is usually something to marvel at.

Sports Illustrated

#6. You were right. I can't be trusted around people." "What does that make me? A stuffed potato?

Dannielle Wicks

#7. Time blossomed, matter shrank away. The highest prime number coalesced quietly in a corner and hid itself away for ever.

Douglas Adams

#8. I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in.

Michelle Wie

#9. I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Uzo Aduba

#10. In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

Lisa See

#11. I have been in several provinces. In some one-half of the people are fools, in others they are too cunning; in some they are weak and simple, in others they affect to be witty; in all, the principal occupation is love, the next is slander, and the third is talking nonsense.

Voltaire

#12. I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

Chuck Barris