"How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?"

--

James M. Barrie

#Morning Quotes #Upper Class Quotes #Pull Ups Quotes

“I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.”
“On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise.”
“We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.”
“The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.”

Source : Tommy Douglas' remarks at the Annual Convention of the Saskatchewan CCF in Regina, Canada, July 1951.
“An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.”
“An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.”
“Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity.”

Source : Patricia Aburdene (2005). “Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated
“Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.”

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