Dorothy Miles Quotes

#1. There is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.

Ray Anderson

#2. Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#3. Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

Chuck Klosterman

#4. Like her mother Lauren used to say, books were solid proof that ordinary people were capable of creating magic.

Melissa Hill

#5. The principles of Christianity, deeply engraved on the heart, would be infinitely more powerfulthan the false honor of the monarchies ...

William J. Federer

#6. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

William Shakespeare

#7. For the first time ever we are bound together instead of miles apart in the same place.

Dorothy Koomson

#8. I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.

Marina Abramovic

#9. while the Tarahumara run to get from point to point, in the process they travel into a zone beyond geography and beyond even the five senses.

Scott Jurek

#10. There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

Brad Meltzer

#11. Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Alice Walker

#12. You look at us and you see oppression; we see stability and harmony. You see corruption; we see ties of family, friendship, and mutual support. You see feudalism, we see mutual responsibility. You see the oppression of women, we see the defense of modesty.

Michael Gruber

#13. He knew what would happen. He has laid wagers with himself, I imagine, for days: how many hours, how many miles towards safety before he has to drop out.

Dorothy Dunnett