2454518 Quotes

#1. Livvy and me together in an elevator for four hours..and we're good. To some eyes the fact that we're both alive could be viewed as a minor miracle.

Michael D. Beil

#2. The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. [A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp ... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

William Mathews

#4. Yes: I was down there once, and for a good while afterward I could call up the sight of it in winter. But now it's all snowed under.

Edith Wharton

#5. If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection,

J.R.D. Tata

#6. Our economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.

Frank A. Clark

#7. For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#8. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prision of my own making

Tahereh Mafi

#9. Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant.

Sun Tzu

#10. No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.

Lucille Kallen

#11. The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy
angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.

Jeannette Walls

#12. Courage doesn't always roar.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#13. But what has it got in its pocketses, eh?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

John Berger

#15. In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Mary Augusta Ward