Fernholz Concrete Quotes & Sayings

Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh. — Tahereh Mafi

if being intolerant and screwing someone out of a well-earned promotion was a crime, this country would need to build a lot more jails. — Jeaniene Frost

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so. — Hillary Clinton

All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you. — V.C. Andrews

I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth — Nelson Mandela

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it. — Peter Drucker

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself. — Michel De Montaigne

There's never going to be an end to suffering if 'he deserves it' is all the justification people need for inflicting pain. — Ken Liu

Do not quarrel ... with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with. — William Henry Drummond

I believe that every person's individual testimony of Jesus as the Christ comes as a spiritual gift. No one can successfully dispute or challenge it because it is so personal a gift to the one to whom it has been given. — James E. Faust