Farhat Lectures Quotes & Sayings

Promises from Lo are like bars at 2 a.m.--empty. — Krista Ritchie

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it. — Elsa Schiaparelli

I'm there for my friends, and I'd like to think I'm there for my employees. — Tilman J. Fertitta

Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large. — Thomas Sowell

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something. — Grimes

You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books. — Jodi Rell

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas. — Voltaire

The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him]. — John S. Mosby

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child. — Maria Montessori

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling. — Gertrude Stein

Sometimes you know you have something, but your subconscious doesn't realize it. That is when you just need to get used to life's little unexpected occurances. — Svetlana Sonday

The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow