"Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time."

-- Robert Jordan

#Dragons Quotes #Wind Quotes

“One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.”
“The tribunal of God and of the pope is one and the same.”
“Samuelson, however, hedged his personal bets - by putting some of his own money in Berkshire Hathaway.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.125, Macmillan
“I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.”
“Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a book, a story is not immune to alteration. People can go on telling it in their own way, remembering it the way they want. And in each telling the ending may change, or even the beginning. Inevitably, in some cases it will be worse, and in others it just might be better. A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.”
“God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.”
“The judge is nothing but the law speaking.”

Source : Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.78
“I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.”

Source : "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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