Buttressed Roots Quotes

#1. The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

Peter Drucker

#2. When husbands and wives not only co-work but try to co-homemake, as post-feminist and well-intentioned as it is, out goes the clear delineation of spheres, out goes the calm of unquestioned authority, and of course, out goes the gratitude.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#3. Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.

Hal Higdon

#4. You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

Barbara Bush

#5. One thing is immediately apparent, and this is that many statements made in the first-person case are epistemologically privileged.

Roger Scruton

#6. It is conceivable that in principle man's motor through-ways resemble the slime trails along which are drawn the gathering mucors that erect the spore palaces, that man's cities are only the ephemeral moment of his spawning
that he must descend upon the orchard of far worlds or die.

Loren Eiseley

#7. Maybe that's why I get frustrated sometimes, because there's no one to blame for how our lives have turned out. I wouldn't change any of the things I've done, but at the same time I wish things were different than they are. I have no regrets, but there's also no satisfaction in where I am.

Chris Dietzel

#8. If you masturbate, would that make you an incubator?
I eyed him sideways, struggling not to laugh at his nonplussed expression or the sharp bark of mock outrage that followed.

Allison Pang

#9. I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

Tina Brown

#10. I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.

Shaun White

#11. There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.

Stockwell Day

#12. I like to keep my personal life private.

Lena Headey

#13. Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.

Albert Hadley

#14. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

Susan Meissner

#15. Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a luxury we can no longer afford. The world has grown too small to forgive us any big mistakes.

Ronald Wright