Initiatiave Quotes & Sayings

Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing. — Tom Paxton

We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form. — Serj Tankian

Get in first and shape the terms. He did so in quick short sentences, his smooth tenor's voice as clear and precise as it was when he sang Goethe's tragic poem. — Ian McEwan

Individuals are custodians of the life stream
temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams. — Charles Lindbergh

You are ice and fire
The touch of you burns my hands like snow — Amy Lowell

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write. — Aldous Huxley

For the most profound experiences in our lives and in the world words are worth nothing. Can you describe love Or death Can you describe what it really feels like the first time you see your child Or the first time your heart gets broken You can try ... but it won't come close to describing what it really was or what it really felt like. — James Frey

Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog. — Ben Lerner

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. — Jim Elliot

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. — Thomas A. Edison

In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager. — Tony Alessandra

I think thas true but love doesmake us do things we regret — Anonymous

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed. — Kate Atkinson

I wanted it to happen, the deception didn't matter. — M. Pierce