Johilla Quotes & Sayings

Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. — C.S. Lewis

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have. — Kim Edwards

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies

To maximise output, every organisation will strive to obtain its necessary raw materials, labour and machinery at the lowest possible cost and combine them to turn out a product that it will then attempt to sell at the highest possible price ... And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other commodities, a difference that conventional economics does not have a means of representing or giving weight to but that is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: that labour feels pain. — Alain De Botton

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods. — Stephen Covey

In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs. — Bernie Sanders

And after a while ... I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that ... well, some people have to die. — Richelle Mead

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living. — Julius Lester