Drenda Witt Quotes & Sayings

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. — Samuel Johnson

Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose. — Nicholas Negroponte

History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of it of course is about that. It's about everything. It's about life history. It's human. And we have to see it that way. We have to teach it that way. We have to read it that way. It's about art, music, literature, money, science, love - the human experience. — David McCullough

For I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation. — Jane Austen

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in. — Mose Allison

While we can't always engineer our own happy endings, we can learn how to be more happy than not with the cards we've been dealt. — Adam Silvera

The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers.
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward — Carl Bernstein

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades. — Nicholas A. Christakis

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying. — Leonard Ravenhill

I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled. — LaToya London

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out ... He was a considerable talent. — Jim DeRogatis

In him, too, was despair from the sorrow that soldiers turn to hatred in order that they may continue to be soldiers. Now it was over he was lonely, detached and unelated and he hated every one he saw. — Ernest Hemingway,

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. — John Dos Passos