William E. Fairbairn Quotes

#1. existence precedes essence, - Author: Gordon Daniel Marino

#2. Love isn't about wanting a hero, it's about wanting to be one for the other person. - Author: T.M. Frazier

#3. All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures - an Eiffel Tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts. - Author: Mark Twain

#4. Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge. - Author: David Ignatius

#5. In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers. - Author: Richard Power

#6. As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them. - Author: Jaggi Vasudev

#7. I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them. - Author: Parker J. Palmer

#8. Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live. - Author: Pema Chodron