Confessions Of A Prodigal Son Quotes & Sayings

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself. — Juvenal

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate. — Peter Drucker

I've never believed protectionism of that kind will lead us anywhere. I think you can have certain specific rules for engaging with India.. for example, not allowing mineral resources to be taken out of the country.. but there is not a shred of doubt in my mind that when you open an economy you should do it in totality. Foreign investment adds a sense of competition; we should see this as a wake-up call to modernise and upgrade. Companies that do not will undoubtedly die. — Ratan Tata

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation. — Robert Foster Bennett

Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School. — Harry Graham

I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses. — Lupita Nyong'o

Rap un zeal' Demon within. I might as well put up a giant 'Come and Get Eaten' sign for the good those warning runes do. — Sabrina Zbasnik

I would love the opportunity to work in Chicago. It would be like a dream come true, if I could work there on something like the way ER was filmed. — Joe Lando

Wealth, in his experience, was not something the people who had it were at all keen to see trickling anywhere. — Richard K. Morgan

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law. — John Locke