Frederick Douglass Ethos Quotes & Sayings

Assimilating the style of predecessors is necessary before one can develop one's own. Only by immersing oneself in the domain can one find out whether there is room left for contributing creatively to it, and whether one is capable of doing so. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I'd prefer to stand when ladies are standing," he said quietly to Livia.
She longed to smooth a balm on all his wounds. "Blake, I'm exhausted. What I really need is a nice, strong lap to sit on to get me out to the car."
He reached up and stroked her hair. "I could be a lap for you, my tired angel. — Debra Anastasia

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind. — Winston Churchill

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well. — Nolan Bushnell

Service Marketing delivers when great communication meets great service design. — Peter Bowman

Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter. — Marianne Williamson

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. — Henry Ward Beecher

Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not the strongest at playing piano, I'll work with someone who's really good at it and we'll combine both our brains to write a song. — Charlyne Yi

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what's not supposed to be there. — John Prine

Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it. — Lois Chiles

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist. — Dag Hammarskjold

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot. — Meryl Streep

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control. — Chuck Palahniuk

The E designation. We heal the mind and the heart. Sorrow, fear, pain, we help people navigate their way out of darkness. — Nalini Singh

He was quite fond of the young man, surprisingly so. But he was equally conscious of the fact that Ethan stood in way of the players. It wasn't just Ethan's unspoken attraction to Henry, but also his growing interest in an alliance between Henry and Helen. Love wouldn't break the rule against interfering with the players' hearts directly. But with one close to them? Especially one so full of charm? It would be his pleasure. — Martha Brockenbrough