Craftspeople Middle Ages Quotes & Sayings

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Forgiveness releases you from a past that no longer defines you. Allow yourself to move on. — Cheryl Richardson

All novelists know that crisis reveals character. — Salman Rushdie

He did, however, invite Jobs to visit him at his hotel before the concert. Jobs recalled: We sat on the patio outside his room and talked for two hours. I was really nervous, because he was one of my heroes. And I was also afraid that he wouldn't be really smart anymore, that he'd be a caricature of himself, like happens to a lot of people. But I was delighted. He was as sharp as a tack. He was everything I'd hoped. He was really open and honest. He was just telling me about his life and about writing his songs. He said, "They just came through me, it wasn't like I was having to compose them. That doesn't happen anymore, I just can't write them that way anymore." Then he paused and said to me with his raspy voice and little smile, "But I still can sing them. — Walter Isaacson

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. — Rowan Atkinson

We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Racial prejudice has always been a difficult topic for me. On several occasions I've withdrawn from conversations that devolved into white bashing. I can never make a general negative statements based on whiteness. Tom didn't choose me without consideration for my race, but rather I think he chose me because of it. — Francis Mandewah

like an angry diamond, — F Scott Fitzgerald

I had unnecessarily described what had long been simmering in my heart, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy. — Hillary Clinton

There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more. — Harry Reid

More shouts, and then my father was there, staring down at me in horror: the minor pagan god, appalled at what his worshiper had done. — Marie Brennan

Fantasies hurt. They hurt hard and deep. They lifted you up to places that you could never reach, then they let you down with a crash. — Peter Lerangis

Empathy, as we have seen, leads to caring, altruism, and compassion. Seeing things from another's perspective breaks down biased stereotypes, and so breeds tolerance and acceptance of differences. — Daniel Goleman