Sin Quotes - Page 51

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

It's hard to find things that won't sell online.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.

One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry.

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.