Matejcek Dam Quotes

#1. Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.

Stephen Kinzer

#2. To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

Chip Heath

#3. I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

Romesh Gunesekera

#4. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

Diane Setterfield

#5. Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#6. The hardest question for anyone who takes responsibility for what he or she does is, What if I turn out to be average?

Atul Gawande

#7. And yet - when one begins to search for the crucial, the definitive moment, the moment which changed all others, one finds one-self pressing, in great pain, through a maze of false signals and abruptly locking doors.

James Baldwin

#8. Worried capitalist is like a comet: he always presages some disaster for the world.

Alexandre Dumas

#9. Weaving spiders, come not here, Hence, you long legged spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not here, worm nor snail, do no offense.

William Shakespeare

#10. Aunt Agnes said, "It's hard to make a good Christian out of a cat.

Richard Peck

#11. I know well that only the rarest kind of best can be good enough for the young.

Walter De La Mare

#12. My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

Haile Gebrselassie

#13. For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it.

Kate McKinnon

#14. You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

George Carlin

#15. The running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.

Mitch Albom