Hesicia Quotes & Sayings

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up. — Woodrow Wilson

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom. — Carolyn Heilbrun

Eating vegetarian doesn't mean you have to eat boring, humdrum dishes. — Marcus Samuelsson

One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens. — Bernard DeVoto

Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power. — Elizabeth Lesser

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. — H.P. Lovecraft

Gradually I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter, — Mary Roberts Rinehart