quotes of day Sunday, July 26, 2026

“We have to focus on how do we ensure the economy works for everybody, and not just a few.”

“The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.”

“Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.”

“I keep on dying, Because I love to live”

“Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.”

“It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.”

“Anything I’ve ever attempted, I was always willing to fail.”

“Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.”

“Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.”

“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.”

“The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.”

“Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.”

“If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me.”

“Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it”

“Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.”