Hammarskjold Family Quotes & Sayings

Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success. — Pearl Zhu

We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky. — Faye Kellerman

Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don't have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is not easy - perhaps not even desirable - to judge other people by a consistent standard. Conduct obnoxious, even unbearable, in one person may be readily tolerated in another; apparently indispensable principles of behaviour are in practice relaxed - not always with impunity - in the interests of those whose nature seems to demand an exceptional measure. — Anthony Powell

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. — Bill Watterson

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love. — Anais Nin

Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then — Nicholas Stern

He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn't realize it yet. — Michelle M. Pillow

Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national figure. Between the moment he's elected to Congress in 1946 and the moment he's inaugurated as Vice President in 1953, he conducts nothing less than a kind of prodigy of American political self-advancement. — Roger Morris

I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They are not-in Montgomery. That is why I am here today ... You want to shut up every colored person who wants to fight for the rights of his people!. — Paul Robeson

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. — Terence

It is not proper for man's life to be a circle, she thought, or a string of circles dropping off like zeros behind him - man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum. — Ayn Rand

As much as she might argue otherwise, his mother was a fragile woman. — Reif Larsen