Goodlad Insurance Quotes & Sayings

I will only mention that the independent power of words to affect the writing of history is a thing to be watched out for. They have an almost frightening autonomous power to produce in the mind of the reader an image or idea that was not in the mind of the writer. Obviously they operate this way in all forms of writing, but history is particularly sensitive because one has a duty to be accurate, and careless use of words can leave a false impression one had not intended. — Barbara W. Tuchman

All writers must go from now to once upon a time; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past. — Margaret Atwood

I'm trying to make it cool to be a good girl. — Reese Witherspoon

The trouble with witches is that they'll never run away from things they really hate.
And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them's a mongoose. — Terry Pratchett

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance. — Edwin Land

One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far. — Andrew Mason

It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around. — Warren Buffett

I was getting better at controlling my emotional reactions. When feelings overwhelmed me, I learned to thwart the burning temptation to act self-destructively and to sit with the feelings instead. — Rachel Reiland

So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want it to. It saves your life. And then you're outraged when it cuts you accidentally. You see, knives don't switch off. And neither do people, not when you hone them to a fine edge. — Karen Traviss

I'm usually always thinking about the cons. — Kid Cudi

Sometimes life just kept punching you in the teeth, no matter how many times you got up. — Ilona Andrews

When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is such a rush. — Danielle LaPorte

I wonder what could happen if self-confessed followers of Jesus surrendered our human powers, and our desires for power, and began to celebrate openly our human weakness in exchange for the experience of Christ as Power within us. What could happen if, for Christ's sake, we openly delighted in our weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties? — John David Geib

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to. — Prince