Glasshouse Works Quotes & Sayings

Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority. — Alexander Hamilton

My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls. — P. J. O'Rourke

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep. — John Irving

A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

Hearing this announcement, your soul will mobilize accordingly. It will mobilize ecstatically, in fact, because this is what your soul was born for. (Trust me, your soul has been waiting for you to wake up to your own existence for years.) But — Elizabeth Gilbert

Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In your bed tonight, turn off all of the lights and make sure that there is no noise. There is something that you will hear. It is probably that branch slapping the window but you better believe that your mind is going to go to some sick individual tapping on the glass because he wants to get your attention to come to the window for when you do you will be grabbed through it and pulled outside. That happens to me all of the time. — Marcus Dunstan

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon. — Walid Jumblatt

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things. — Aristotle.

You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know. — Aristophanes

No'
might make them angry
but
it will make
you
free. — Nayyirah Waheed

Researchers would eventually discover that autistic people stim to reduce anxiety - and also simply because it feels good. In fact, harmless forms of self-stimulation (like flapping and fidgeting) may facilitate learning by freeing up executive-functioning resources in the brain that would otherwise be devoted to suppressing them. — Steve Silberman

Should I push him or should I throw him?" Howie asks.
"Do what comes naturally," I yelled back.
"I don't know," he says. "This is a very unnatural thing. — Neal Shusterman

You need anything we're only an hour away, give or take, honey. You call. We'll help you hide the body. — Sean Michael

No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the 1970s in communications. When useful knowledge exists in companies of all sizes and also in universities, non-profits and individual minds, it makes sense to orient your innovation efforts to accessing, building upon and integrating that external knowledge into useful products and services. — Henry Chesbrough