"In greatness, life and death merge."

-- Dejan Stojanovic

#Greatness Quotes #Life And Death Quotes

“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.”
“I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.”

Source : "Theophilus London Doesn’t Have a Driver’s License, But He Drives Around Anyway". Interview with Bennett Marcus, www.vanityfair.com. February 12, 2013.
“Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.”

Source : "Jimmy Carter Administration: Remarks on Visit of Prime Minister Begin of Israel". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. March 22, 1978.
“[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.”
“You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.”
“Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.”
“In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.”
“Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.”

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