Chordata Quotes & Sayings

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party. — Arthur Helps

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. — Maxwell Maltz

Become intensely conscious of the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle

To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more. — Annabelle Selldorf

People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would smile politely, for she was very polite, but privately she stormed to Betsy with flashing eyes, 'I'm not going to do anything. I want to just live. Can't people just live? — Maud Hart Lovelace

Among the more pleasing by-products of the coming end of advertising is a heretical realization among some industry thinkers: the idea that for advertising to survive, or rather to thrive, it must add value to people's lives. In a world in which lazy, superfluous, and stupid no longer cut it, advertising will have no choice but to compete as primary content, not secondary intrusion. It will become the thing, not the thing that sells the thing. — Andrew Essex

When you think of Buddhism, you're likely to think of peace and tranquility. — Aung San Suu Kyi

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. — George Santayana

A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out. — Nick Rhodes

All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity. — Dalai Lama

I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives. — Mike Huckabee

Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape. During — Pema Chodron

The game has evolved over the years, and I don't think we have as a country. In other countries they have, and they adjust much quicker than our boys. — Mahela Jayawardene

Mrs. Samson is a bitch, Mom. — Heidi Cullinan