“You may not be afraid to have your hand cut off, but your body will suffer.”— John D. Rockefeller, amazon.com
“You're only at the beginning of your career in office. Consider well what path you will make in times like these, through politics.”— Rusticus, amazon.com
“All men work more zealously against their enemies than they cooperate with their friends.”— Julius Caesar, amazon.com
“When you have played basketball for a while you don't need to look at the basket when you are close like this. You develop a sense of where you are.”— John McPhee, newyorker.com
“Our affairs have reached such a stage that our first concern must be to avoid disaster ourselves...[other speakers] submit to you the wrong subject for deliberation.”— Demosthenes, amazon.com
“And are you so unintelligent, men of Athens, as to hope that the same policy that has brought our state from success to failure will raise us from failure to success?”— Demosthenes, amazon.com
“The explanation is simple. A disillusioned nation fed on cheap heroics and scandal and crime were revolting against the low estimate of human nature it had allowed itself to entertain.”— Frederick Lewis Allen, amazon.com
“He pictured the world, not as it was, but as he wished it to be. The optimist became the sentimentalist.”— Frederick Lewis Allen, amazon.com
“[Rommel] did not convert theory into practice, but exemplified instinctive practice and later derived theory from it.”— Erwin Rommel, amazon.com
“Remember, the people who tried synergy strategies before you and failed weren't idiots. A lot of very smart people have lost a lot of money because of the siren suns of synergy. Just because synergy play makes sense at first blush doesn't mean you want to join the list of failures.”— Paul B. Carroll, amazon.com
“We play by their rules long enough and it becomes our game.”— Orson Scott Card, Valentine, amazon.com
“The world is always a democracy, in times of flux and the man with the best voice will win.”— Orson Scott Card, Peter, amazon.com
“'I'll bet you $10 I can write a full page of solid type and you'd read every word.' Scoffs. 'I don't even have to write a line to prove my point. I'll just give you the headline: THIS PAGE IS ALL ABOUT [NAME].'”— David Oglivy, amazon.com
“Between the acting of a dreadful thing. And the first motion, all the interim is. Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.”— Julius Caesar, amazon.com
“It is well known what happens on such occasions. The simplest and most obvious conclusion is rejected as unworthy of such experts in wisdom as these ingenious hoary old men, and an obscure alternative is warmly debated and then rejected; finally a most far-fetched and marvelously improper conclusion…”— Count Belisarius, amazon.com