Here is some quick background on this quote, AIG lost 65 Billion dollar in the last quarter and had to be bailed out by the American taxpayers to the tune of 170 Billion dollars. When asked about the 176 million dollars in bonuses they are paying out, here is the quote:
“We cannot attract and retain the best and brightest talent to lead and staff the AIG businesses”
Now that is a funny quote!
“If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.” - Benjamin Netanyahu
“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” - Golda Meir
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. - P. J. O’Rourke
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. - Anais Nin
“Your victory is an inspiration for us. That which appeared impossible has become possible.” - YULIA TYMOSHENKO, UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER
“The president-elect has promised changes in policies. There is a capacity for the improvement of ties between America and Iran if Obama pursues his campaign promises, including not confronting other countries as Bush did in Iraq and Afghanistan, and also concentrating on America’s state matters and removing the American people’s concerns.” - AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI - IRAN
“In this case hope has won over prejudice — this is good for the United States and the world as a whole.” - CELSO AMORIM, BRAZILIAN FOREIGN MINISTER
WHY LOVE HAPPENS BETWEEN TWO PARTICULAR PEOPLE
“No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell … That’s why perfume and deodorant are so popular.”
Mae, age 9
ON WHAT FALLING IN LOVE IS LIKE
“Like an avalanche where you have to run for your life.”
John, age 9
“If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don’t want to do it. It takes too long.”
Glenn, age 7
Here are some of my fav back-to-school quotes:
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. - Mark Twain
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway. - George Michael
In grade school I was smart, but I didn’t have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends. - David Spade
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. - H. L. Mencken
Everytime I pay crazy gas prices I think of this quote…
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Here are the top 5 proverbs as finished by grade one students at a public school in the US
1. Don’t bite the hand that . . . looks dirty.
2. Better to be safe than . . . punch a 5th grader.
3. If you lie down with dogs, you . . . will stink in the morning.
4. Where there is smoke, there is . . . pollution.
5. If at first you don’t succeed . . . get new batteries.
The final frontier, space:
-Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space. - Douglas Adams
-It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. - T. S. Eliot
-The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. - James Irwin
Written inside a German-language letter that is being sold by Bloomsbury Auctions in Mayfair are some very interesting quotes by the famous scientist Albert Einstein.
“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. “No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this”
“For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.” “And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people.”
In the past historians have used quotes of his like: “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind” - to show that Albert Einstein did believe in religion but this new infomration seems to over-trump it.
Not really shocking from a man who followed the high-power of science his entire life but it is interesting to hear what a die-hard atheist he appeared to be.
