Delectables Quotes & Sayings

It may be of interest to future generals to realize that one makes plans to fit circumstances stances and does not create circumstances to fit plans. That way danger lies. — William Duggan

What difference does it make?" he says. "People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation."
"So you don't mind," I ask him, "that people judge you so harshly?"
"I have no one to impress," he says. "No one who cares about what happens to me. I'm not in the business of making friends, love. My job is to lead an army, and it's the only thing I'm good at. No one," he says, "would be proud of the things I've accomplished. My mother doesn't even know me anymore. My father thinks I'm weak and pathetic. My soldiers want me dead. The world is going to hell. And the conversations I have with you are the longest I've ever had. — Tahereh Mafi

Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence. — Alcaeus

9 Holding a cup and overfilling it Cannot be as good as stopping short Pounding a blade and sharpening it Cannot be kept for long1 Gold and jade fill up the room No one is able to protect them Wealth and position bring arrogance And leave disasters upon oneself2 When achievement is completed, fame is attained Withdraw oneself3 This is the Tao of Heaven — Lao-Tzu

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power. — Jerry Rubin

I will always love being a writer. There is nothing greater than that. — Millicent Ashby

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be — Michael J. Sandel

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. — Mencius

Life is what it makes you. — Mason Cooley