Lejour Lift Quotes

#1. Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

Bernard Lonergan

#2. Want to wear scarlet velvet and slippers and lace gloves and ride in a stage instead of wearing calluses on my hands driving a team like a man. It is not her fault. She is right. The Lord looks on the inside, although people look on the outside. That man is measuring cloth

Nancy E. Turner

#3. Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

Mason Cooley

#4. Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.

Rick Warren

#5. -she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

Larry McMurtry

#6. An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#7. As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Rose Wilder Lane

#8. And if the best toys do end up in the hands of those who've never forgotten that life itself is an act of war against intelligent opponents, what does that say about a race whose machines travel between the stars?

Peter Watts

#9. Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager."
"Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

John Green

#10. If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

Frederick The Great

#11. When everyone else says you can't, determination says,'YES YOU CAN.'

Robert M. Hensel

#12. Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble.

Jimmy Johnson

#13. To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

Isaac Asimov

#14. A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

Pema Chodron