William Van Alen Quotes

#1. No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Emily Bronte

#3. she likes the sound of languages other than English.

Ken Liu

#4. I see you, and I suddenly forget why I was keeping score. That's why I stayed away, I guess. It was a last-ditch effort to protect myself. Because you totally, utterly undo me.

Andrea Lochen

#5. she asked 'you are in love what does love look like' to which i replied 'like everything i've ever lost come back to me.

Nayyirah Waheed

#6. The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

Benito Mussolini

#7. Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

Alicia Keys

#8. The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

Debi Thomas

#10. The key to longevity: keep breathing.

Sophie Tucker

#11. Kero and Rollo stood over it, slick with blood, both holding knives.
'Kero, you came? Why?' asked Naif.
'Maybe I just needed someone to show me how to be brave enough,' he replied with a hint of a dangerous grin.

Marianne De Pierres

#12. Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

Louise Brown