Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category Archives: 0859 – Quote Unquote
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Whatever the social effects of talk radio or the partisan agendas of certain hosts, it is a fallacy that political talk radio is motivated by ideology. It is not. Political talk radio is a business, and it is motivated by revenue. The conservatism that dominates today’s AM airwaves does so because it generates high Arbitron ratings, high ad rates, and maximum profits.
~ David Foster Wallace
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It is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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The world’s leaders are correctly fixated on economic growth as the answer to virtually all problems, but they’re pushing it with all their might in the wrong direction.
~ Donella Meadows
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Fear of evil is greater than the evil itself.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
~ John le Carré
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An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in.
~ Peter Drucker
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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
~ John Ruskin
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Three things are ever silent—Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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