Holbooks Quotes & Sayings

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner' candidate. And, to be blunt, there is no necessary connection between a moving life experience and the skills necessary for leadership. — Jeff Greenfield

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women. — Julianna Margulies

Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it. — Luigi Pirandello

Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar. — Stephen Covey

What we have done is unacceptable. — Nevada Barr

U.S.-based readers now account for about 52 percent of The Economist 's circulation, but the magazine continues to resolutely employ British spelling and usage. "It's part of our marketing," says the Economist correspondent Lane Greene, who originally hails from Marietta, Georgia. "We're an outside view on America, and that's signaled all the time by the style. It feels British and it reads British, and that's by design. — Anonymous

It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers. — Nick Offerman

E-mail can be so impersonal - and so open to interpretation. — Tera Lynn Childs

I feel the pressure but I embrace it. Whatever I have to do to make the sport catch on to other people, I'll do it. — Freddy Adu