A Modest Proposal Ethos Quotes & Sayings

I've never been fired in my life. — Kara DioGuardi

I wish someone would redo 'Dune.' — Ellen Stofan

But it speaks for an inner world - and again this is evident in Murakami - that sits in a different dimension from the smooth-running, flawlessly attentive, and all but anonymous machine that keeps public order moving forward so efficiently in Japan. — Pico Iyer

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head. — Edward FitzGerald

Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders. — Mary Parker Follett

The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps — Lao-Tzu

I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. It's a miserable feeling. I've had it all my life. At the high school the girls would stand in groups and just look at me. I was queer and different and everybody knew it. — Jean Webster

You do not need proof for what people want to believe. — Thomas Sowell

There never was a good war or a bad revolution. — Edward Abbey

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed. — Rebecca Goldstein

Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good. — Zach Braff

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong

But these events had touched her so little - like the echo of thunder from the mountains after a storm had passed over the countryside and was far away. — Sigrid Undset

And because she jumped, our world began — Emily Henry

Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere. — Carine Roitfeld