Jakis Quotes

#1. She raised her own glass, filled with a deep red wine. "To Ambrose Jakis," she said with sudden fierceness. "May he fall into a well and die.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. Ambrose turned on his heel and stormed off, but before he made it through the door, Elodin burst out singing:

'He's a well-bred ass, you can see it in his stride!
And for a copper penny he will let you take a ride!

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

James A. Garfield

#5. See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!

Alexander Pope

#6. Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait ...

George H. W. Bush

#8. Ship, are you conscious now?" "My speaking establishes a subject position that might be conscious.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#9. Those activities which are not based numbers, Which are based on humans(Customers and Employees) is known as business. Numbers will ultimately increase if humans are happy who are involved.

Rakesh Wadhwani

#10. We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

Saint Augustine

#11. It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.

Marshall McLuhan

#12. WINNIE: Sometimes I am wrong. (Smile.) But not often. (Smile off.) Sometimes all is over, for the day, all done, all said, all ready for the night, and the day not over, far from over, the night not ready, far, far from ready. (Smile.) But not often. (Smile off.)

Samuel Beckett

#13. When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

#14. The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Maya Angelou

#15. [Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

Ha-Joon Chang