17130 Rca A02 Quotes & Sayings

Powerful people are not affected or infected by their environment. They refuse to be victims of others. — Danny Silk

My grandchildren just know me now as Mr. Potato Head. — Don Rickles

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. — Andre Breton

The stars shone through the leafless jasmine branches. Behind them they heard the river flowing, and now and again on the bank the rustling of the dry reeds. Masses of shadow here and there loomed out in the darkness, and sometimes, vibrating with one movement, they rose up and swayed like immense black waves pressing forward to engulf them. The cold of the nights made them clasp closer; the sighs of their lips seemed to them deeper; their eyes, that they could hardly see, larger; and in the midst of the silence low words were spoken that fell on their souls sonorous, crystalline, and that reverberated in multiplied vibrations. — Gustave Flaubert

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words
"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"
words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way? — Jennifer Egan

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting. — Graham McTavish

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard! — Derek Jacobi

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it. — Joshua Reynolds

A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end — Andrew S. Grove

Go forth from our holy land and go back to your families who are waiting for you impatiently, that you and we, as well, lead a peaceful life together. — Muqtada Al Sadr

First, if Francis were around today, he'd say our church community relies too much on words to tell others about our faith. For Francis, the gathered community was as potent a form of witness as words. He was convinced that how we live together is what attracts people to faith. — Ian Morgan Cron

Stop talking about inclusion and engagement and start including and engaging in every conversation, every meeting. — Susan Scott

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires — Anonymous

I like him in sweaters. I get the urge to cuddle and pet him like a stuffed animal. — Jenny Han

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood. — Sheri L. Dew