Kontra Quotes & Sayings

For the next three days, I'd piece her together. After I tore her completely apart. — Lucian Bane

If a fairy makes a wish to leave the fairy cave, she must return to the cave every year and always on her birthday to live as a tiny fairy on that day. If she fails to obey the Fairy Queen's Rules, she'll turn to fairy dust, forever. — Caz Greenham

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others. — Seth Godin

I asked the Zebra,
are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with good habits?
Are you noisy with quiet times?
Or are you quiet with noisy times?
Are you happy with some sad days?
Or are you sad with some happy days?
Are you neat with some sloppy ways?
Or are you sloppy with some neat ways?
And on and on and on and on and on and on he went.
I'll never ask a zebra about stripes ... again. — Shel Silverstein

You will see what you missed if you turn around. — Han Soo Lee

The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual. — Antony Beevor

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us. — Jose Saramago

Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life - a purpose that serves the greater good - and devoting the majority of your time, energy, and attention everyday toward living it, you discover the secret to a life of fulfillment. — Hal Elrod

The least a leader can do is to share the burdens of his people. I have little other comfort to give them. — Joe Abercrombie

One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me. — William Clay Ford Jr.

The task of education is not to teach subjects: it is to teach students. — Ken Robinson

And the stitches in my heart begin to pop. One by one. — Tahereh Mafi