Conapto Quotes & Sayings

Faith is an active force. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time. — Phil Crosby

Visitors say, 'Real shrunken heads! Wow! How were they made? By slitting the skin, taking out the skull and brains and steaming them with hot sand? Gross!' But what no one asks is: how did they get here? What are they doing hanging up in a university museum in the south of England? Once you start to answer that question, you realize that shrunken heads like these are a product as much of European curiosity, European taste and European purchasing power as they are of an archaic tribal custom. It is time to turn the spotlight round and point it back at people like you and me, and at our ancestors, who were responsible for bringing hundreds of these heads into museums and people's homes and who delighted in them as much as -- if not more than -- the people who created them in the first place. After all, it is not the Shuar who are pressing their noses to the glass of an exhibition case in an Oxford University museum. — Frances Larson

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. — Ferdinand Lassalle

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception. — Neil Strauss

Every local church is only as good as the individual members are, not one bit better. If — A.W. Tozer

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. — Henny Youngman

Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The whole of our scholarship - the whole of our thought - we question everything except the centrality of sexuality. — A.S. Byatt

Librarian: taking the E.T. out of Libertarian. — Jud Barry

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people. — Elizabeth Olsen

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad ... — Ibn Ata Allah