Inspirational Connecticut Quotes & Sayings

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people. — George Mason

I feel like I went through the Great Depression. All these companies are being successful around you, you're on that track, and then the market collapses, and you're out of a job. You're trying to save your investors' investment, and it doesn't work, and you sell the company for nothing. It was brutal. — Nick Woodman

There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that. — Jane McGonigal

I had no more value after I became an author than when I was in my home tending to runny noses, little bumps and bruises ... Our value can't be wrapped inside what others think or we think, because that is too dependent on this ever-shifting world. The value God places on us makes us more than we think we are, even on our hardest days, weeks, or years. — Cindy Woodsmall

To lead men, you have to lead them with affection. — J.R.D. Tata

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is. — James A. Baldwin

Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with no more equipment than they can carry on their backs. When pressed, they babble about snakes or bears or even, by God, bandits. But the real barrier, I'm sure, is the unknown. — Colin Fletcher

Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;
and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am infected with life and will die of it in time. — Peter S. Beagle

The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010 ... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line. — Joschka Fischer