"A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering."

-- John Quincy Adams

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #United States Quotes

“Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.”

Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.39, Duncan Baird Publishers
“What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer”
“I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.”
“Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories.”
“I'm struck by the fact that by and large equity capital doesn't play a big role in new financing; it's either bonds or internal financing but not really equity. And therefore, it's not clear that anything which improves the equity markets has really much to do with the productivity of the economy as a whole.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.”
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”
“I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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