A9c20731 Quotes & Sayings

If you can't be with the side you want, work to fix the side you're with. — C.T. Phipps

I love that sassy name! Zoozle! — Eileen Granfors

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind, and with this control, obviously, every person may open his mind to the tramp thought impulses which are being released by other brains, or close the doors tightly and admit only thought impulses of his own choice. — Napoleon Hill

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. — Jean De La Bruyere

Don't be discouraged. When one door closes, you can find alternative open door. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend. — Walter Benjamin

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one. — Peter Drucker

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game — R.D. Laing

In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down. — Bill Gates

Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard. — David Jeremiah

A herd of old men with shriveled balls and spotted skin and young men with ridiculous hair. — George R R Martin

Philip May is known in politics as a man who has taken a back seat and allowed his wife, Theresa, to shine."

Allowed.

Now let us reverse it. Theresa May has allowed her husband to shine. Does it make sense? If Philip May were prime minister, perhaps we might hear that his wife had "supported" him from the background, or that she was "behind" him, or that she'd "stood by his side," but we would never hear that she had "allowed" him to shine.

"Allow" is a troubling word. "Allow" is about power. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I wanted music very bad this evening, that singing devotchka in the Korova having perhaps started me off. I wanted like a big feast of it before getting my passport stamped, my brothers, at sleep's frontier and the stripy shest lifted to let me through. — Anthony Burgess