Audenshaw Reservoir Quotes & Sayings

But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements of your craft, in the act of writing you will learn the rest of what you need to know in order to do justice to your subject. — Philip Gerard

Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning faith in the ability of the market to guide the system to its point of highest return. The market-that wonderful social machine-would take care of society's needs if it was left alone. Don't try to do good, says Smith. Let good emerge as the by-product of selfishness. — Robert Heilbroner

One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the 'high school movement' made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education — Paul Krugman

I fail remarkably. I write Eye when I mean Tooth. I write Fornicate when I mean Caress. I write Wine when I mean Blood. — Mary MacLane

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen. — Malcolm Gladwell

If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for gold; whether that's a simplification or not. If you think of 'Chariot of the Gods,' there's this reoccurring theme of gold. — Jon Favreau

Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple. — Laozi

Babe, I can't promise you that I'll always be perfect, but I'll do my straight best to try, and I'll make it my life's goal to always make sure you're happy. All you've got to do is marry me, and I'll do the rest. — Elle Casey

Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time. — Charles Duhigg

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. — Toni Morrison

There can be no doubt, I thought, pushing aside the newspaper, that our mean lives, unsightly as they are, put on splendour and have meaning only under the eyes of love — Virginia Woolf

Structures are never monolithic. — James S.A. Corey

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself. — Jane Curtin

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God. — George MacDonald