Autrefois French Quotes & Sayings

I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything against business or private enterprise or capitalism per se, but I think that it is time to rethink the regulation of capitalism. — Charles Ferguson

There was probably, different times [I was taking care of] 25, 50 families. — Bernie Kosar

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life. — Craig Groeschel

Sensible people reinvent themselves every ten years. — Jeff Goins

Sometimes you have to fail in order to succeed. Whether we want it or not, there is an order in the universe. It's hard to understand and many, many times it's hard to swallow, but it's there and our choices are our own. Failure is part of life and no one can succeed every time they try something. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories. — Kenneth Goldsmith

A moment later, in an even fainter voice, he whispered, Do not mourn me — Christopher Paolini

I don't need panty discounts on anything. — Kenya Wright

Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity, for that is why you have been tested by H affliction. — Anonymous

It was by this time about nine in the morning, and the first fog of the season. A great chocolate-colored pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapors; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the black end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths. The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare. — Robert Louis Stevenson

He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate — Sanjaya Baru

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' — George W. Bush

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves. — Mike Shinoda

One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all his heart, does not suffer spiritual ruins - but he will also not have his own self-based constructions. Instead, he takes shelter in the shadow of the natural constructions, like rabbits under boulders. But one who has a human soul cannot take shelter in anything other than constructions that he builds with his own spiritual toil ... — Abraham Isaac Kook