You must love the desert, but never trust it completely. Because the desert test all men: it challenges every step and kills those who become distracted.
-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Before this I always looked to the desert with longing… Now it will be with hope.
-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Every search beings with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
[A]nyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing never will discover his own.
-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The Republicans have turned Iraq into a corporate welfare gravy train… True conservatives should be particularly outraged by the no-competition-orgy of fraud, malfeasance, and ineptitude the lack of Congressional oversight has engendered.
-Arianna Huffington in her blog review of the movie “Iraq for Sale”
If you don’t know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out!
-Charles D. Ellis, Investment Policy
I haven’t had such an interesting time since the Bay of Pigs…
-John Kennedy’s “gallows humor” at the beginning of the crisis at Ole Miss as quoted by Taylor Branch in Parting of the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
Can they hit Oxford, Mississippi?
-another example of JFK “gallows humor” after being told about Cuban missiles right after dealing with the crisis at Ole Miss, as quoted by Taylor Branch in Parting of the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
Let me be sure to get arrested with people who don’t snore.
-Martin Luther King joking while planning the Birmingham protest of 1963,, as quoted by Taylor Branch in Parting of the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
Man-made laws assure justice, but a higher law produces love.
-Martin Luther King at a sermon in NYC Riverside Church. Taylor Branch in Parting of the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
do you keep changing these or am i going mad and just noticing different things each time i come? either i would believe.
ReplyDeletei'm going to start using this post like the i ching :)
love it.
Investment Policy?!? Do you read that to lull yourself to sleep at night?
ReplyDeleteKeda, no, I haven't changed these, but I put up another set of quotes last week and both had some quotes from Coelho, but I spread them over two weeks. Glad you like 'em.
ReplyDeleteMurf, I thought the quote was funny. I read the book because I sit on the investment committee of a private foundation and the guy we hire to watch the various investment managers suggested it. It's a fairly easy book to read.
I particularly like the first quote. It rings true. It also reminds me of the Dune book series that I loved.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you've continued the weekly quote post. It is such a great idea and such exceptional posts (and quotes!). I must say they are all very poignant. And I did not know JFK and MLK were so funny.
ReplyDeleteSorry I haven't been to your blog in a few days ... I seem to have missed out on some very great posts.