Yorker 43 Quotes

#1. From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.

Anna Louise Strong

#2. If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.

Robert Zoellick

#4. Only those who attempt the absurd ... will achieve the impossible. I think ... I think it's in my basement ... Let me go upstairs and check.

M.C. Escher

#5. The best way to be original is to be yourself.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

Santiago Durango

#7. You are responsible for your own situation in life, you are most likely doomed, and the future is terribly grim.

Anonymous

#8. The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.

Will Rogers

#9. The purpose of learning is not to give exams in class and forget about it, but to increase the knowledge until they possess an area of the earth for God almighty

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Daddies ain't worth much if they don't worry just a little.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. Five years, nine months, and a few days. Fifteen months nearly have passed since he vanished, and is there anything so wonderful in an engagement of little more than five years?

Thomas Hardy

#12. If laws and principles were fixed and invariable, nations would not change them as readily as we change our shirts.

Honore De Balzac

#13. Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.

Asa Don Brown

#14. Let's all sing the redneck national anthem: Settle for what you can get.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. mother's Diana-like

Louisa May Alcott