Desconfiados Quotes & Sayings

Life is stranger than biology textbooks. — David Rains Wallace

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins. — Bernard Arnault

Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool. — Nita Leland

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter. — Joseph Addison

If you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking. — Mary Parker Follett

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? — Dodie Smith

Teachers need the freedom to teach - freedom they can't have if they're only teaching so their students can pass tests. I'm pretty sure my students won't find anything about Hector on the Common Core tests. I'm equally sure that what they learned about Wisdom, Justice, Courage, and Temperance may stay with them for the rest of their lives. - Mr. Browne — R.J. Palacio

It is hard to die unmourned. — George R R Martin

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new. — Saint Augustine

Some stains never wash out. — Jodi Picoult