Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way.
We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.
At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.
There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which] gives you an entirely different view than most people who are in the market. [The second principle is the margin-of-safety concept, which] gives you the competitive advantage. [The third is having a true investor's attitude toward the stock market, which] if you have that attitude, you start out ahead of 99 percent of all the people who are operating in the stock market - it's an enormous advantage.
I have what I like to call a 'chinneck. ' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.
Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at thy feet?
We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.