Menasor Quotes

#1. You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

Richard St. Barbe Baker

#2. I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

John Liu

#3. He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.

Plutarch

#4. We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Lucille Clifton

#5. Pay heed, my darlings, and always take the greatest care over the company you keep in life: if death strikes you without warning, you may be stuck with them til the moon turns to blood and wouldn't that be a torment?

Karen Maitland

#6. This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.

Stonewall Jackson

#7. For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Practice never makes you perfect, but it gets you closer to perfection.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Invented the #hashtag.

Chris Messina

#10. For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.

Thomas Piketty

#11. The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet.

Andre Aciman

#12. Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants.

Chad Knaus

#13. The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

Terri Windling