Marcondes Rede Quotes

#1. I never considered disobeying an order or even a request from Daddy. I loved and admired him, and one of my preeminent goals in life was to earn his approbation. I learned to expect his criticisms, always constructive, but his accolades were rare. My

Jimmy Carter

#2. If the road is wonderful, then we may want to be the road itself rather than a traveller passing from that road!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Studying is also important, but we must become humans first.

Lee Jin-wook

#4. I'm no robin hood, I enjoy making the money.

Carl Icahn

#5. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

Kent M. Keith

#6. Perverseness is your whole defence.

Jonathan Swift

#7. There's something Vichy about the French.

Ivor Novello

#8. Their conversation had gone like this: 'Something something, something something, something something something ... the White Dog of Afghanistan ... something something something, something, something, something else, something entirely unintelligible.

Mark Helprin

#9. In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.

Harriet Martineau

#10. One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.

Malcolm Forbes

#11. Puget Sound Community School. Like Sudbury and Big Picture, this tiny independent school in Seattle, Washington, gives its students a radical dose of autonomy, turning the "one size fits all" approach of conventional schools on its head.

Daniel H. Pink

#12. I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox