Category: Quotes

Everyone knows looks are important, but if you’ve never read Nancy Etcoff’s Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, then you probably don’t know just how important. Kathy Davis,a professor at the University of Utrecht, watched as more than fifty people tried to persuade surgeons in the Netherlands to alter their appearance. Except for […]

Anthony Robbins’ Giant Steps: Small changes To Make A Big Difference is a fine book that I recently reread. Here are the best quotations from the book. Enjoy! The more decisions you make, the better you’ll become at making them. Muscles get stronger with use, and so it is with your decision making muscles. — […]

All of these are from Ann Coulter’s 2011 columns. Enjoy! Just as Americans ought to be able to learn the perils of a welfare state by looking at Greece, we ought to be able to learn the perils of illegal immigration by looking at California. Employers like hiring non-Americans because they can pay illegal aliens […]

50) “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark… and we’re wearing sunglasses.” — Blues Brothers (1980) 49) “Do you like scary movies?” — Scream (1996) 48) “Why so serious?” — The Dark Knight (2008) 47) “I am nothing special, of this I am […]

From the outstanding book, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. Countries such as Great Britain and the United States became rich because their citizens overthrew the elites who controlled power and created a society where political rights were much more broadly distributed, where the government […]

1) “Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.” — Mason Cooley 2) “Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.” — Dale Carnegie 3) “A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle […]

Brett Kimberlin has been in the news a lot lately. He has filed suit against some conservative bloggers, he’s called the workplace of Stacy McCain’s wife, some people believe he’s behind a website that has posted the personal information of bloggers and others believe he’s connected to the SWAT-ting of three conservative bloggers. According to […]

From The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty on intelligent men. — George Orwell, P.1 After an eighteen-month campaign, all of the informed, conscious, and ideologically consistent voters have already made up […]

From Brian Tracy’s Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed. I learned that if I didn’t commit to achieving my own happiness, no one else would. — P.24 At almost any time, you can measure how well you are doing in your relationships by one simple test: laughter. How […]

From John Maxwell’s Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow’s Success (Maxwell, John C.). “You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training,” says (Seth) Godin. “There’s no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don’t spring up overnight….Every great company, every great […]

Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To: Divine Answers to Life’s Most Difficult Problems was a fantastic book and here are the best quotations from it (and, no, I’m not telling you all 10 prayers so you’ll have some strong incentive to read the book). You see, the overwhelming majority of mankind has to go […]