Certaldo Town Quotes & Sayings

A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at another, causes to deviate extensively from his preconceived plan. — Marcel Proust

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories. — Kevin Spacey

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead. — Italo Calvino

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say — Andy Stanley

true excellence does not come from being superior to others, but means surpassing oneself time and again. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

This unity in love is one of the most characteristic works of the inner self, so that paradoxically the inner "I" is not only isolated but at the same time united with others on a higher plane, which is in fact the plane of spiritual solitude. — Thomas Merton

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:18, NIV). — Randy Alcorn

There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia. — Larry Munson

What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God. — Neale Donald Walsch