Grandissimo Irene Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. — Daphne Du Maurier

The courage to try again is daring spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift! — Nigel Dennis

If we reduce batch sizes by half, we also reduce by half the time it will take to process a batch. That means we reduce queue and wait by half as well. Reduce those by half, and we reduce by about half the total time parts spend in the plant. Reduce the time parts spend in the plant and our total lead time condenses. And with faster turn-around on orders, customers get their orders faster. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Stable happiness doesn't come from getting everything we want, because we never will; true happiness comes from wanting whatever we get. — Dan Millman

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people. — Ed Miliband

I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood. — Bob Herbert

I stand morally opposed to killing: war, executions, killing of the old and demented, the killing of children, unborn and born. . . . I believe that all of life is sacred and must be protected, especially in the vulnerable stages at the beginning of life and its end. — Helen Prejean

Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness. — Roger Ebert

Moonless winter night-
a billow of rising fog
hides the distant pines — Lenard Moore

When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife. — Melissa Rosenberg

Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone — Jack Kerouac

Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into
a tender and subtle offering, what is crude into an object of refinement, what
is ugly into a thing of beauty, confrontation into collaboration, ignorance into
knowledge, hereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality
incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love — Yehudi Menuhin

In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition. — John Sulston