Cute Monthly Quotes & Sayings

A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used' ... 'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal. — C.S. Lewis

Hello, fear. Thank you for being here. You're my indication that I'm doing what I need to do. — Cheryl Strayed

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen. — Bruce Jackson

Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own. — Roy Bennett

This asshole had better open the door," Jackal growled, spinning his fire ax in a graceful arc as the horde came on. "I didn't come all the way to Eden to be eaten at the damn gates. Some might call it ironic, but that just pisses me off. — Julie Kagawa

The term "escalation of commitment" was first coined by Barry Staw, a business professor at the University of California, Berkeley.4 It's defined as a decision-making pattern in which a person - for our purposes, a business leader - continues to support or believe in a strategy even after it has continually failed. Escalation of commitment is often described as the inability to let go, or as an obsessive need to try to succeed even when failure is inevitable. — Laurence G. Weinzimmer

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money. — Malcolm Gladwell

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future. — Vijay Mallya

I've always had very catholic tastes. — Ian McKellen

A flower blooms with all of her power and love to give you joy and to beautify this world. Is she conscious, unconscious, or super conscious? — Debasish Mridha

It was late. Late to start again. Late to realize how many years he'd spent running down the wrong road. — James S.A. Corey

To be a success, do what you love and love what you do. — Debasish Mridha

The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of Liberty
that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men. — George Washington