Contributive Goals Quotes & Sayings

I come from a sense of struggle, a sense of using the instruments that were given to me to manipulate the environment in which I found myself, and joined up with those who are equally as skillful at manipulating that environment, as was I. — Harry Belafonte

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie. — Jean De La Bruyere

Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the Lord, and yet to get as much as possible from Him. The prevailing thought today is of being used, as though that were the one thing that mattered. That my little rubber band should be stretched to the very limit seems all important. But this is not the Lord's mind. The Lord wants us to be used, yes; but what He is after is that we pour all we have, ourselves, to Him, and if that be all, that is enough. — Watchman Nee

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it. — Tim Burton

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth. — Charles Dickens

Jump the well, and find the Dry. Means loss your self or prove your self. — Abbas Naqvi

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings. — Winifred Holtby

The CEO of Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, married one of the Enron secretaries this week. It's amazing how romantic these Enron guys can be when they realize that wives can't be forced to testify against their husbands. Skilling said today she was the best secretary Enron had ever had. She could shred 950 words a minute ... I guess they are on their honeymoon right now. That's going pretty well. Hey, he's used to screwing Enron employees. — Jay Leno

He would have been far more attractive to her if she could have trusted him. You could not love a man who was always playing hide-and-seek with you; that was the lesson she had learned. — Mary McCarthy

You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times. — Tilman J. Fertitta

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. — Alex Haley

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player! — Elton John

I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure. — Ari Graynor