Trialed Dictionary Quotes

#1. As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.

Christopher Buckley

#2. When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

Billie Jean King

#3. Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.

Anthony Burgess

#4. It will forever remain an accusation and a challenge to all men and women of conscience that it took as long as it has, before all of us stood up to say enough is enough.

Nelson Mandela

#5. There's no certainty in this, Baruk. That seems a fact particularly galling to you humans.

Steven Erikson

#6. Increase in me that wisdom
Which discovers my truest interest,
Strengthen my resolution
To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. He that's secure is not safe.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. The mechanisation of the world could never proceed very far while taste, even the taste-buds of the tongue, remained uncorrupted, because in that case most of the products of the machine would be simply unwanted.

George Orwell

#9. Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Jalal Talabani

#10. I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.

Dean Koontz