Delashmutt Omaha Quotes & Sayings

School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about. — Eli Broad

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest. — Wendell Berry

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures. — Blaise Pascal

You have got to give children respect from the earliest stage. You should be proud of whatever you do. If you're not, you really shouldn't be doing it at all. — Jade Jagger

If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self. — Iain Sinclair

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. — Gerald Brenan

If you are not doing what your passion is, you are putting it on layaway. — Denis Waitley

There is something more here than embarrassment at being praised. The strengths 'I' have are not admissible to the arena of ability where they are socially useful; for once admitted, 'I'
my real self
would no longer have them. — Richard Sennett

We are so rebellious that when we die our cells refuse to live a second longer. But our souls they live always ... — Shawna Mae Lewis

Villains are meant to be hated. — Johanna Lindsey

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any. — James C. Collins

After the earthquake had destroyed three-fourths of Lisbon, the sages of that country could think of no means more effectual to prevent utter ruin than to give the people a beautiful auto-da-fe; for it had been decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few people alive by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible secret to hinder the earth from quaking. — Voltaire

For us, destiny always feels ... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. — Danny Boyle