Agley People Quotes & Sayings

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness. — Swami Vivekananda

She was comfort and pain, wrapped up in one beautiful package ... that wasn't mine. — S.C. Stephens

Marriage is more permanent than love. Love may be eternal, but it is not permanent. It may continue forever and forever, but there is no inner necessity for it to continue. It is like a flower: bloomed in the morning, by the evening gone. It is not like the rock. Marriage is more permanent; you can rely on it. In old age it will be helpful. — Rajneesh

My doubts vanished as well. Doubt was for things that did not know their purpose, and I knew mine. — Jim Butcher

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other? — Lester B. Pearson

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. — Victor Hugo

The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its continued viability. It is clear that many banks did not fully implement these fundamental concepts. The obvious lesson is that banks need to improve their corporate governance practices and supervisors must ensure that sound corporate governance principles are thoroughly and consistently implemented. — Daniele Nouy

A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn't have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you. — Veronica Roth

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any. — Dick Cheney

It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to the accumulation of goods, that material poverty became a major problem. Obviously, this meant abandonment or downgrading of spiritual values, virtue, etc. To share or not to share in the increase of the collective wealth-this was the Number One question. It was the desire to acquire wealth that prompted the poor to start fighting. — Jacques Ellul

Anyone in the Tooth & Nail or Drive-Thru scene was my thing. — Kellin Quinn