#tracts

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #tracts




The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.


Dean Acheson


#distracts #ego #great #looking #man

Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.


Gary Allan


#contracts #definitely #end #even #everything

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.


Daniel Boone


#astonishing #beheld #below #commanding #delight

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.


Mitch Daniels


#around #attracts #best #big #big change

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.


Bruce Johnston


#attention #attract #attracts #bills #business

Evil is whatever distracts.


Franz Kafka


#evil #whatever

Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches. Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys...


Neil Gaiman


#humor #humor

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.


Nick Lampson


#congress #contracts #donors #members #must

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.


Moses Hadas


#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.


Ron Paul


#capitalism #central #central bank #cherishes #contracts