Jack Jardine Quotes & Sayings

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on. — John Turturro

As a teacher, Tengo pounded into his students' heads how voraciously mathematics demanded logic. Here things that could not be proven had no meaning, but once you had succeeded in proving something, the world's riddles settled into the palm of your hand like a tender oyster. — Haruki Murakami

A goal without a plan is just a wish. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act. — Dale Peck

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say. — Alethea Kontis

Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore. — Charles Spurgeon

(now that tea was no longer acceptable), — David McCullough

And at once I fell in love with her, for if it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she should look on us with contempt, as I supposed Mlle Swann to have done, and that we should think that she can never be ours, sometimes, too, it is enough that she should look on us kindly, as Mme de Guermantes was doing, and that we should think of her as almost ours already. — Marcel Proust

One of the great opportunities you have as a leader is to help your people find meaning, contribute to a social purpose, and experience healthy interpersonal relationships at work. The challenge is that exploring healthy interpersonal relationships in the workplace has been discouraged or even forbidden. Regrettably, beliefs such as "It's not personal; it's just business" diminish an aspect of work that is essential to our healthy functioning as human beings - the quality of our relationships. — Susan Fowler

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. — Jodi Picoult