Count Alfred Von Schlieffen Quotes

#1. There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

Gordon Livingston

#2. There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.

Nate Corddry

#3. Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

John Locke

#4. Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. All she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished.

Anthony Liccione

#6. There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

Jules De Goncourt

#7. He said at last, when Miss Gilchrist had twittered into silence:

Agatha Christie

#8. Wearing a burqa is like walking inside a big fabric shuttlecock with only a grille to see through and on hot days it's like an oven.

Malala Yousafzai

#9. Friedell caught the essential truth about people prone to catch-all theories: they aren't in search of the truth, they're in search of themselves.

Clive James

#10. I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

Bob Goff