Echtenote Quotes

#1. But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

Wangari Maathai

#2. the clerk in the ministry to correct this, he pulled out his original typescript. "See for yourself, madam. Quod erat demonstrandum it is Missing," he said, as if he'd proved Pythagoras's theorem, the sun's central position in the solar system, the roundness of the

Abraham Verghese

#3. I would handle the deep intellectual matters, like vibrators; she would handle the social sphere.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

Alfred De Musset

#5. On my show I share all these yummy, fattening recipes, but I tell people, in moderation, in moderation. You can have that little piece of pie.

Paula Deen

#6. Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved.

Ann Voskamp

#7. Why do we allow the mirage of to-morrow to keep our eyes from the beauties of to-day?

Orison Swett Marden

#8. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

Judith Butler

#9. All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that.

Isaiah Thomas

#10. Progressives should recognize common morality with religion.

Barack Obama

#11. The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

Simon Sinek

#12. Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Colin Powell