Global Leadership Summit 2012 Quotes & Sayings

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.
(on the birth of his granddaughter) — Herbert Hoover

When she walked by the two officers, they didn't recognize her.
"Have you seen the luscious bonbon with the golden braids?"
She grinned up at them with such impish mischief that they almost forgot their quest for the singer. "She is with her lover," Hannah said. "But she can always handle one or two more." She winked at them. "Go there, through that door."
She made her escape while the uniformed hobbledehoys gawked and gaped and finally burst into the dressing room where Franz, the three-hundred-pound juggling strongman, was adjusting his loincloth.
"I ought not do it," Hannah said aloud to herself as chaos erupted behind her. "I just can't seem to help myself. it is a shame, really. — Laura L. Sullivan

Abraham Lincoln, said in 1838, when he and the United States were both very young, Reason - cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason - must furnish all materials for our future support and defence. Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the Constitution and laws. — Al Gore

Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way. — Dean Koontz

I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France, then I studied in Italy. My life was always about being confronted with an environment where you had to adapt. — John Elkann

I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress. — Leonard Slatkin

People don't think I can construct a sentence, let alone write a script. — Freddie Prinze Jr.

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu ... — Thomas Moore

Sirach calls the people who dwelt at Shechem a foolish people (Ecclus. 50:26), just as the Germans are accustomed to judge concerning the Swabians and the Bavarians. They were a proud people given to luxury. — Martin Luther

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism. — Ludwig Von Mises

And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense. — Gaby Dunn

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! — Philip Pullman

social barriers as artificial distinctions made by the strong to bolster up their weak retainers and keep out the almost strong. Having — F Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact. — Claudio Sanchez

What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you? — Billy Joel