Designamite Quotes & Sayings

To grow yourself, you must know yourself. — John C. Maxwell

Mother--that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. — T. DeWitt Talmage

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual. — Swami Vivekananda

A major challenge we face today, therefore, is to create a desire in people to learn; and to foster and facilitate this desire throughout their lives. — Bryn Holmes

every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business. — Patrick Lencioni

Instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions. — Ellen Goodman

The language is perpetually in flux: it is a living stream, shifting, changing, receiving new strength from a thousand tributaries, losing old forms in the backwaters of time. — William Strunk Jr.

Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of being something or somebody in particular.Of all the affections the love of oneself comes first. Light and love are impersonal.When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing, Fukuyama argued, " ... :;the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.":; ... The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring. (P. 31 — Samuel P. Huntington

I can't keep my head above water one minute to the next: it's not just the parties and the goo-gooing with what's-her-name, I've got the decide how long the Five Hundredth Anniversary Parade is going to be and where does it start and when does it start and which nobleman gets to march in front of which other nobleman so that everyone's still speaking to me at the end of it, plus I've got a wife to murder and a country to frame for it, plus I've got to get the war going once that's all happened, and all this is stuff I've got to do myself. Here's what it all comes down to: I'm just swamped, Ty. — William Goldman

Just because I'm a capitalist doesn't mean I'm a black-hearted bastard. — Ransom Riggs

I got me a car and I got me some gas,Told everybody they could kiss my ass ... — Glenn Frey

For the people are naturally not valiant , and not much cavalier . — John Suckling

The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children. — Juan Williams

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit. — Patti Smith