Awarof Quotes

#1. Ihave precious little sympathy for theselfish proprietyof civilized man, and if awarof racesshould occurbetween the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

John Muir

#2. Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Salman Rushdie

#3. Be happy to, I said, cringing to hear such a dumb, folksy locution escape my lips, then launched into my well-rehearsed precis. The fact that humankind now finds itself in a post-Darwinian epistemological condition, I explained, need not trouble us from an ethical perspective.

James K. Morrow

#4. Why was the boy surprised to find celery growing out of his ears?

Nicola Yoon

#5. All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point.

Angie Morgan

#6. Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#7. The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always- greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.

Dana Gioia

#8. Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.

Karl Lagerfeld

#9. Be wary of great leaders.

Pete Seeger

#10. Sometimes God has to put us flat on our back before we are looking up to Him.

Jack Graham

#11. God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.

Marcus Buckingham

#13. Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

Niels Bohr

#14. I am teaching more. That is what I do best.

Mikhail Baryshnikov