Gilbert And Sullivan Mikado Quotes & Sayings

Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with. — Yvon Chouinard

Money doesn't bring courage, I learned. It's the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life. — Suze Orman

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left! — Ginger Rogers

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver. — James Geary

Designing Online Communities is a must-have for anyone designing or researching online communities, particularly for learning. Owens' work is both comprehensive and eminently readable, a sweeping look at the technologies, design patterns, and cultural forms they produce that is both theoretically ambitious and grounded in examples and tools that will help you develop, research, and manage online communities. — Kurt Squire

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now. — Lenny Kravitz

When I think of highly plotted novels I think of detective fiction or mystery fiction, the kind of work that always produces a few dead bodies. But these bodies are basically plot points, not worked-out characters. The book's plot either moves inexorably toward a dead body of flows directly from it, and the more artificial the situation the better. Readers can play off their fears by encountering the death experience in a superficial way. A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot, makes it less fearful by containing it in a kind of game format. [from an interview with DeCurtis] — Don DeLillo

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes. — Ernesto Cardenal

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week. — Tom Rath

The closest he got to being Prince Charming was being a Principe della Mafia, but there was nothing remotely romantic about that. — J.M. Darhower

My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents. — Ram Shriram

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future. — Anil Kapoor

If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light. — Anonymous