Cake Like Cornbread Quotes & Sayings

Every leader has authority over arenas in which he has little or no competence. When we exert our authority in an area where we lack competence, we can derail projects and demotivate those who have the skills we lack. — Andy Stanley

Big egos are just big sheilds to lots of empty space. — Diana Black

It's just as hard ... staying happily married as it is doing movies. — Tom Hanks

As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel. — Tiffany Madison

The path of love is its own reward. Your love itself, that is what completes you. — Frederick Lenz

That the city would return to being the thriving white suburb of his youth. Cars with tail fins. Straw hats and sock hops. Episcopalians and ice cream socials. It would be the opposite of white flight, he said. "The Ku Klux influx." But when I'd ask him how, he'd just shrug and, like a conservative senator without any ideas, filibuster me with unrelated stories about the good ol' days. — Paul Beatty

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them. — George D. Prentice

It's not about the young or the old; it's about anyone who takes something from his or her imagination and makes it real. --Thom Beers, Executive Producer — Meredith Books

His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be. — Stanislaw Lem

Empowered kids are in the best position to deal constructively with disempowering circumstances. And we, as parents, are in the best position to empower them - as long as we're willing to limit our use of power over them. — Alfie Kohn

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! — John Lennon

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them. — Mary Ellen Mark