Francois Nars Quotes
It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.
Francois Nars
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A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
Nathan Myhrvold
Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
Barry Ritholtz
Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.
Barbara Sukowa
'The mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.''If so,' said the stranger with fierce certainty, 'it is an immoral mission.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. (pg. 140)
Kingsley Amis
A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen
One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.
Madeleine Albright
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity.
Marcel Proust
If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.
Mother Teresa
It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.
Francois Nars