Daybreakspet Quotes & Sayings

To attain, and to keep, a professional-managerial job requires class-specific human capital. Developing and displaying that capital is a central preoccupation of upper-middle class life. — Susan T. Fiske

For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself. — Bernard Lonergan

He has little use for scholars, but you are his sole grandchild, and as such, he is willing to overlook your failings as long as you conduct yourself as a princess of the court during your time of service. Do not disappoint him, Andromeda. Your grandfather's mercy is not endless. — Nalini Singh

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — Woodrow Wilson

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic. — Kenneth E. Boulding

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once. — Pietro Aretino

Takuan Soho stated, Each action of the warrior is performed from a place of fundamental wisdom ... it is completely different from the ordinary behavior of a fool. Even if it looks the same, it is different on the inside. — Bohdi Sanders

Mala hierba nunca muere. (Translations: Weeds never die. Bad grass never dies.) — Anonymous

I tapped on the door, with all the power of a farting flea. — Gavin Extence

flute. As I stood in the doorway, he lingered over it, then, carefully rewrapping it, placed it in his box of treasured things. I never saw the flute again. * — Mildred D. Taylor

Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride. — George Clooney

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. — Ed Koch

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people. — Gyorgy Ligeti

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death — Moliere