Yehezkel Kaufmann Quotes

#1. ... if the majority of men cannot know what is good for them, each for himself, how can they know what is good for others by proxy? If they are to be controlled by specialists, how and by what standard can they choose the specialist?

Ayn Rand

#2. I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.

Dolly Parton

#3. On Common Sense:
Common sense isn't.
Corollary: Uncommon sense is.

Kalifer Deil

#4. what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.

Diane Arbus

#5. My sons named her Bridget because that way they always had their sister, Bridget, with them. People thought we were nuts because on the phone they'd hear us say, "Bridget, sit!"

Peter Fonda

#6. All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

#7. Don't curse the snow, curse yourself for moving to a place with snow.

Ben Tolosa

#8. Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

Julian Barnes

#9. French fry walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "Hey, could I get a beer please?" The bartender looks at him shaking his head and says, "No, we don't serve food here.

Various

#10. The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

Gary Hamel

#11. We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

Timothy Murphy

#12. The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. I don't know why I'm nervous.
Nor do I understand why I come across as such an ice queen when I'm nervous. I should probably be locked up for murder; because I've been known to kill a conversation stone dead. -Layla

M.A. George

#15. Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.

Jack Kornfield