Compston House Quotes & Sayings

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside. — Peter Drucker

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. — Swami Vivekananda

some places are not good places to be a person and not a car and that was where I was. — Catherine Lacey

The decision on whether to ban anyone from the U.K. is made by the home secretary on the basis of the evidence at the time. — Theresa May

She told him that from this angle the treetops looked like cauliflower and she had once heard them beckon her to jump, promising her that if she did, they'd bounce her back in the air again. Some days, like today, he was petrified she'd listen to them. — Melina Marchetta

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always. — Sophocles

I always thought the name of Utah's major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word "desert." But no, Deseret is the "land of the honeybee," according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years. — A. J. Jacobs

Love is not merely an attribute of God's character but the essence of his being — Sunday Adelaja

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world. — Mary Lynn Rajskub

And no power on earth could tell whether their blankly indifferent eyes were shutters protecting hidden treasures at the bottom of shafts no longer to be mined, or were merely gaping holes of the parasite's emptiness never to be filled. — Ayn Rand

Men of great genius, whether their work be in poetry, philosophy or art, stand in all ages like isolated heroes, keeping up single-handed a desperate struggling against the onslaught of an army of opponents. Is not this characteristic of the miserable nature of mankind? The dullness, grosness, perversity, silliness, and brutality of by far the greater part of the race are always an obstacle to the efforts of the genius, whatever be the method of his art; they so form that hostile army to which he at last has to succumb. — Arthur Schopenhauer

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities. — John Ashbery

I love her," he rasped, his eyes on Danny. "You want me to beg, I'll fuckin' beg. I'll do whatever I gotta do if it means she keeps breathin'. — Madeline Sheehan

If we were to just accept we're not so different from each other, we wouldn't feel so alone. — Nicole Williams

When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined. — Niels Diffrient