Illuminant Quotes & Sayings

I think my father knew how to be Jewish, but he didn't teach us. He must have thought we would absorb it with our mother's milk. — Edith Hahn Beer

If your actions don't reflect your goals ... and your behavior doesn't reflect your company's vision ... then you're not a leader; regardless of what your title indicates. — Steve Maraboli

When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting. — China Machado

Would it not be wiser, then, to remit this part of reading and to allow the critics, the gowned and furred authorities of the library, to decide the question of the book's absolute value for us? Yet how impossible! We may stress the value of sympathy; we may try to sink our identity as we read. But we know that we cannot sympathise wholly or immerse ourselves wholly; there is always a demon in us who whispers, "I hate, I love", and we cannot silence him. Indeed, it is precisely because we hate and we love that our relation with the poets and novelists is so intimate that we find the presence of another person intolerable. And even if the results are abhorrent and our judgments are wrong, still our taste, the nerve of sensation that sends shocks through us, is our chief illuminant; we learn through feeling; we cannot suppress our own idiosyncrasy without impoverishing it. — Virginia Woolf

The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency. — Will Rogers

Those who do scientific or medical studies and have conclusions are reflecting the results preferred by those who pay them. — Richard Diaz

A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence — Sunday Adelaja

The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice. — John Lancaster Spalding

As was often the case, the most outspoken man was the least discerning. — Brandon Sanderson

The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole. — Kofi Annan

That mama-bear, elegant-and-modest-on-the-outside, hot-as-allfuck-on-the-inside thing was ringing his doorbell. And God help him, he knew it was beyond inappropriate to be making up fuck fantasies about this woman right then but he couldn't help it. — Lauren Dane

I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives. — Walter Hill

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security. — B. Carroll Reece

Rich and bitter depth of their experience, the — W.E.B. Du Bois

When we have the courage to claim space for ourselves. When we risk creativity. When we relish our sensuality. When we honor our lives and their experiences as valuable. When we create from a female body, expressing ourselves in a woman's voice, using a woman's language. We begin to bloom. — Lucy H. Pearce