Federations Deep Quotes & Sayings

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with
it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times. — Jasper Fforde

In walking or working your dream, arriving is a bad thing, because arriving makes you do things you said you wouldn't do when you started. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

What is all this love for if we have to go out into the dark? — M.R. James

It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you. — Thomas J. Watson

You didn't never ought to have a' sold Bag End, as I always said. That's what started all the mischief. And while you've been trapessing in foreign parts, chasing Black Men up mountains from what my Sam says, though what for he don't make clear, they've been and dug up Bagshot Row and ruined my taters! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Life is long if you let it be. — Jenny Han

When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. — Jean-Baptiste Say

If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman. — Jules Verne

It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good ... — Demi Moore

I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times. — Alan Furst

If someone confronts you with a negative attitude, don't let it draw you in and don't fight back with the same weapon, but instead, counter it with with positive powers and you will be victorious. But these positive powers must be real, Tora, and not feigned. For instance, if someone is looking to fight with you, react peacefully and his contentiousness will run its courses because it finds no resonance. — Roswitha Hedrun

I selected all my books for the possibility of some flare of candles along the road toward illumination or enchantment — Pat Conroy

By giving, you get, if you don't give, don't expect. — Debasish Mridha

One can train dolphins to jump synchronously because they do so in the wild, and one can teach horses to run together at the same pace because wild horses do the same. — Frans De Waal