quotes about Change And Growth

“Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?”

“I don't really like the limelight.”

“Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.”

“History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.”

“Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.”

“Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To achieve this aim, it has covered the crust of earth with organisms which in their life processes absorb the light of the sun and use this power to produce a continuously accumulating chemical difference. ... The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference.”

“Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.”

“It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.”

Source : William Dean Howells (2015). “The March Family Trilogy”, p.509, Simon and Schuster

“John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.”

“One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.”