Aprils Birthstone Quotes

#1. A leader tries to perpetuate the conditions which demand his leadership. Thus, the leader requires the outsider.

Frank Herbert

#2. Humans were fragile creatures, needing a lot of covering to survive. They could no more live with their hearts bared than they could make it through a Montana winter night in shorts and flip-flops. But

Roxanne Snopek

#3. The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.

Bill Gates

#4. The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Winston Churchill

#5. The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

Pablo Casals

#6. Guess who's running for president? Jeb Bush. Jeb was governor of Florida and he speaks fluent Spanish, which raises the question: What language did his brother speak? What was that?

David Letterman

#7. The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

William Shakespeare

#8. You keep your gods in your backyard and I'll keep my lack of God in mine.

Michael Ian Black

#9. And when I found out they had, I came back. What do you think I was doing at the alliance?" "Having drinks, by the looks of it," he snarked,

Kim Harrison

#10. Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

Clara Schumann

#11. I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you didn't believe that truck was bearing down on you, there is a certain point where I tackle you. And this is more important than that.

Penn Jillette

#12. The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#13. Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts ... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck