Deca Leadership Quotes & Sayings

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption. — Vittorio Alfieri

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me. — Brian Clough

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me. — Ron Ben-Israel

He does miracles when we need them - not for our entertainment or to make us feel "spiritual. — Craig S. Keener

There is no real conflict between nationalism and globalism. On the contrary: It is to the extent that a nation becomes more global in its achievements that it becomes admirable. — Nicos Hadjicostis

To birth, to death, and that wondrous thing in between. And to auld lang syne. — Stephen Cox

Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car. — Travis Kalanick

You will see what you missed only if you turn around. — Han Soo Lee

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting. — Sarah Dessen

My time in the Middle East led me to realize that, with a few rare exceptions, the dominant political ideology there - whether you were talking about Sunnis or Shiites or Kurds, Israelis, Arabs, Persians, Turks, or Palestinians - was "I am weak, how can I compromise? I am strong, why should I compromise?" The notion of there being "a common good" and "a middle ground" that we all compromise for and upon - not to mention a higher community calling we work to sustain - was simply not in the lexicon. — Thomas L. Friedman

There were too many things suddenly that I didn't understand, and I didn't know what to do about it. I knew that I needed to be older, but that's not enough. You have to have some basic information that was not yet available to me. — Fred Chappell

For a long time, science has gone in the direction of sort of putting people in their place. We learned that the sun doesn't revolve around the Earth, the Earth revolves around the sun; we learned that we're just another species, evolved, like all other species, so we're just another animal, really. — Elizabeth Kolbert

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. — Stendhal

I've always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right. — Henrik Fisker

One of these days my overconfidence is going to get me killed . . . but not today. — Bryan Schardein