Adhemas Quotes & Sayings

The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and this can be terrifying. I know, because I was a daughter of a mother with a changeable temperament. — Ayelet Waldman

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict. — Clarence Darrow

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life. — Carrie Chapman Catt

You have to be mentally prepared to handle any challenge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My whole philosophy in survival is to take down brush as soon as you get in a situation. — Joe Teti

With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws. — Graeme Souness

The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones. — Dean Koontz

Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations ... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving. — Henry Mintzberg

Nature was constrained. Disorder was channeled, it seemed, into patterns with some common underlying theme. — James Gleick

It is, you must concede, unpleasantly messy, this business of having feelings, this mattering to each other. I've always thought of it as gory, a sort of perpetually occurring road accident - everyone going too fast, too close, without due care and attention, or with too much ... — Glen Duncan

I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven. — Samuel B. Pettengill

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous! — Frederick Franck

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself. — Brandi Chastain

It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different. — Gene Wolfe