Mcgonagalls Office Quotes

#1. A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that over, we go to rejoin them and to enjoy with them the society of the blessed. Oh, how sweetly the heart rests in this immortal hope!

Eugenie De Guerin

#2. We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before

Jane Austen

#3. For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

Elle Macpherson

#4. The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.

William Poundstone

#5. My childhood was never great. We moved from place to place a lot. There were times when we had no definite place to stay. So, a basic level of security was not always there. Therefore, when you finally make it out, and you become who I am, you're humbled by the memories of those situations.

LeBron James

#6. To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

Don Tapscott

#7. I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.

John D. Rockefeller

#8. A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men ...

Albert Mohler

#9. Sometimes in your life, you will get to the point where you are not even trying or worthy even taking a step a head of you, but you will have to go to the next step without thinking more.

Auliq Ice

#10. She suspected if they looked in Gamache's bedside table, they'd find all sorts of lost souls he put there for safekeeping. And maybe a baguette.

Louise Penny

#11. Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

Barry McCaffrey

#12. Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall].

Dada Bhagwan

#13. Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.

Stephen Bruner

#14. That alone would be Eddie's triumph in all this; that she had taught the kelpie suffering.

D. Morgenstern

#15. I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

Matthew Specktor