Business External Environment Quotes & Sayings

Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the formal one, that some things are the province of those who experience them and not naturally open to the scrutiny of others: courtship and love, with their emotional nakedness; the simple moments of family life; the appalling rawness of grief. That the state and other systems are precluded from snooping on these things is important - it is a strong barrier between the formal world and the hearth, extended or not - but at root privacy is a simple understanding: not everything belongs to everyone. — Nick Harkaway

Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo, crawling along the ground would you look at the birds and worry about not having wings? Probably not. — Alexander McCall Smith

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other. — Garry Wills

Earlier, I'd held her papa in one arm and her mama in the other. Each soul was so soft. — Markus Zusak

Whatever is popular deserves attention. — James Mackintosh

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. — Amber Frey

What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same time, I think what stands out is, as superheroes, you don't give up; you don't surrender. I think that's what makes a superhero. — Ellen Wong

First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife. — Allan Houston

He who is everywhere is nowhere. — Seneca The Younger

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully. — N.K. Jemisin

At the heart of sin lies a lack of trust that God intends the best for us. — Philip Yancey

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be. — Emilio Estevez

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon