Simon Phoenix Quotes

#1. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally . Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

Barack Obama

#2. Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

Alan Hirsch

#3. When we are crazy busy, we put our souls at risk. The challenge is not merely to make a few bad habits go away. The challenge is to not let our spiritual lives slip away.

Kevin DeYoung

#4. Money is only a means to serve God.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.

Wayne Dyer

#6. The art of reading, in short, includes all of the same skills that are involved in the art of unaided discovery: keenness of observation, readily available memory, range of imagination, and, of course, an intellect trained in analysis and reflection.

Mortimer J. Adler

#7. A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

George Jean Nathan

#8. I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.

Louis Oosthuizen

#9. I felt less unhappy than usual because her melancholy expression, the way the vivid colour of her dress almost cut her off from the rest of the world, made her seem somehow lonely and unhappy, and I found this reassuring.

Marcel Proust

#10. I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.

Jasper Fforde

#11. The problem's name is God.

Salman Rushdie

#12. I don't ever really notice when guys are hitting on me. I'm oblivious.

Krista Allen

#13. It must be every barrister's nightmare, something that finds him or her unprepared.

Louise Doughty