Convenor Define Quotes & Sayings

Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease! — Charles Dickens

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play. — John C. McGinley

Quality assurance (QA) refers to planned and systematic production processes that provide confidence in a product's suitability for its intended purpose. — Christina Hattingh

Canada was regarded as a hostage to restrain Britain, — Barbara W. Tuchman

Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you! — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery. — Erica Jong

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset ... there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'. — Albert Schweitzer

To the degree that one relates sensitively, appropriately, and even charmingly, to the people and events faced in business and personal life, success will follow. — Herman L Glaess

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past. — Peter Drucker

But love is not
fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much
about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True
love suffers, and is silent. — Oscar Wilde

The biggest thing that I get most excited about is, my family and I would watch television together, and we weren't just passive viewers. Something would happen, and then we would talk about it. When Will Smith was shot on 'Fresh Prince,' that sparked a conversation about safety. — Jerrod Carmichael