Essop Quotes & Sayings

Did anyone care for poor Cinderella until her fairy godmother took her in hand? Did anyone look beyond the ragged clothes and sooty face? Did anyone see the unshed tears and the poor, tired face?
Obviously not. Appearances matter. — Gita V. Reddy

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too? — Arundhati Roy

You are, and always have been, the one person in my life who has the ability to destroy me. For years, I clung to you, knowing that, as long as I kept you close, I didn't have to be scared of anything else. You, Quarry Page, are the embodiment of my greatest fear. — Aly Martinez

No matter how comfortable I felt at SymboGen, I needed to remember how good they were at taking things and reducing them to their lowest common denominator. — Mira Grant

So how, one wonders, does Lean,[i] the hot business methodology of the past two decades, continue to thrive when companies that sign up for it have been dropping out at a rate of more than 90%? — Employee X

My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve. — Ernest Gallo

As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down. — John Catsimatidis

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things. — Epictetus

Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause. — Tom Johnson

Any thought can pop into your head at any moment. Where do these thoughts come from? — Art Hochberg

The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is. — Danny Glover

It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August - the most terrible August in the history of the world. — Arthur Conan Doyle

With every morsel I consumed, I was informed that princes most love slender young ladies. As I was as interested in a prince's love as in sticking my fish fork into my ear, I reacted to this by cleaning my plate ever more thoroughly. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place. — Lester Bangs

Some people are born starry. Some people shine so bright you can't help but sit back and stare. Some people can't help but shine. — Natalie Lloyd