Ficarelli Quotes & Sayings

Any good strategy involves risk. If you think your strategy is foolproof, the fool may well be you. Execution, too, is uncertain - what works in one company with one workforce may have different results elsewhere. Chance often plays a greater role than we think, or than successful managers usually like to admit. The link between inputs and outcomes is tenuous. Bad outcomes don't always mean that managers made mistakes; and good outcomes don't always mean they acted brilliantly. — Philip M. Rosenzweig

Our apprehensions were over what we might find, or fail to find, at the end of our journey; for silence continued to answer all calls despatched to the camp. — H.P. Lovecraft

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system. — Wendy Kopp

I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can. — Andrew Peterson

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion? — Horace Greeley

We walked for a long time. We kissed, we embraced on the Lungarno, I asked him, half serious, half joking, if he wanted to sneak into my room. He shook his head, he went back to kissing me passionately. There were entire libraries separating him and Antonio, but they were similar. — Elena Ferrante

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas. — Steven Rattner

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else. — Ken Bruen

When we don't understand, like, or agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we cannot understand His wisdom and knowledge — Elizabeth George

A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing. — Dwight L. Moody

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us. — Janet Jackson

I don't have time for any special skin routines. Many a night I go to bed with the gloppy mascara and all. — Keri Russell