El Coronel Quotes & Sayings

A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward. — Caterina Fake

Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience. — E.L. Konigsburg

Truth is one. It doesn't change. It covers all things which touch the heart - honor and pride and pity and justice and courage and love. — William Faulkner

You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them. — John Kessel

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school. — Miguel De Unamuno

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history — Susan Abulhawa

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be. — Thomas Haynes Bayly

Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes. — Leonora Carrington

George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context. — Mark McKinnon

These angels look like the type to be heavily scarred by battle wounds, but instead they have the kind of perfectly unmarred skin prom queens around the country would kill their prom kings for. — Susan Ee

You choose the leaders and place them strategically around the table of your vision and mission. They are already around you because of some degree of loyalty, so if you continue putting 80% effort in enhancing loyalty that already exists, you will end up going into overkill and igniting a toxic level of internal office politics that was not originally existent in your organisation. — Archibald Marwizi

It's not the quality of the answers that changes our lives, it's the quality of the question — Steven Aitchison

I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans. — Tena Desae

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish ... because it draws water as its breath instead of air. — Leonardo Da Vinci

A joy in living, a natural expression of the will to survive all personal disaster, can be constant despite whatever changes take place. Some fortunate people are born with it and others acquire it through learning and growth. — Faith Baldwin