Colleague Transfer Quotes & Sayings

Sir 51:38 Work your work before the time, and he will give you your reward in his time. — Various

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else. — William, Saroyan

as Lucretius wrote: "our appetite for life is voracious, our thirst for life insatiable — Carlo Rovelli

But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory of its freshness to midday. — Henry David Thoreau

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing. — May Sarton

One example of an uniquely Sethian approach towards initiation is for the initiate to regard his or her own life with the same urgency and need experienced as in a war zone in which every move and action must be weighed yet determined swiftly, as necessity dictates. During battle, situations such as missed opportunity, lingering sentimentality, second or third chances, or excessive contemplation would be fatal; and so it is on the sinister path. — Zeena Schreck

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots. — Emile M. Cioran

The passions, the emotions, the affective domain of man's consciousness, are a part of nature's order too. The central part. — Robert M. Pirsig

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream. — Leonor Fini

When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests. — Phyllis Diller

His staff had shaken hands with her as though a woman was merely another kind of man. Fools! The seeds of Eve were in this radiant creature. The lullabyes of half a million years throbbed in her throat. Had they no sense of wonder, no reverence, no pride? — Mervyn Peake

Intelligence is not always the source of knowledge but love is. — Debasish Mridha

If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities we all have. It is our humanity and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful. — Aimee Mullins

The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids to enable such subtle bodies [air, light, &c.] to make a well-defined impression on organs as blunt as ours; that it is laudable to encourage investigation but to hold back conclusion. — Thomas Jefferson

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals. — Octavio Paz