Backhaus Howell Quotes & Sayings

There is no tragedy without commitment; no negation even, without it. — John Peter Nettl

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to. — Frank Luntz

Then, the other thing that affected my interest in choices growing up was the fact that I was going blind and that meant that there were lots of questions that constantly kept arising about how much choices I actually could have. — Sheena Iyengar

I have this great fear of Mexico City. I won't go to Mexico City unless someone meets me at the airport and is with me. I just feel very vulnerable there. — Sandra Cisneros

When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward. — Sun Tzu

But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil men or evil peoples, but by quite ordinary men in search of an answer to the baffling problems that beset every society. Nothing could have been further from the minds of most of them than the final brutish and obscene result. The gangster comes upon the stage only when the scene has been made ready for him by his blundering precursors. — John T. Flynn

Rage made you the creature of those who enraged you, it gave them to much power. Rage killed the mind ... — Salman Rushdie

It's extremely hard to know what the economic consequences of any decision will be. And I'm not a, a, a financial analyst, so I, I generally don't try to make some kind of prediction about that. — Naomi Oreskes

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment. — Francis Chan

We now concern ourselves with a labor less spectacular but nevertheless not unrewarding: that of making the terrain for these majestic moral edifices level and firm enough to be built upon; for under this ground there are all sorts of passageways, such as moles might have dug, left over from reason's vain but confident treasure hunting, that make every building insecure. (A319/B377) — Immanuel Kant

There are people I stand near a single time and skirt forevermore. — Karen Marie Moning

I believe in education and wish I had a better one. — Loretta Lynn