Quotes 261 till 280 of 559.
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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
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Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
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Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
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Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The ''marketing'' immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
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My father said: ''You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.''
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My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
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No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
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