Kouat Quotes & Sayings

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. — Ben Jonson

When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company. — Henrik Fisker

Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention. — Hakeem Olajuwon

On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, ... they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally. — C.S. Lewis

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man. — Nelson Mandela

Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is the notion of morality as the disinterested performance of duty. But when worship is reduced to disinterested duty, it ceases to be worship. For worship is a feast. — John Piper

I hope I always deserve you — A Meredith Walters

Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much? — Lorna Landvik

The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows religious precepts that, in the end, justify an unjust injury to others, while the questioning man, addressing his own conscience, may have the better chance to consider all the circumstances and come to the just decision. — Gerry Spence

Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and coffeehouses to misinform one another. — Neal Stephenson

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other. — John Legend

One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they will not be remembered, and if not remembered the stories will not be reprinted (because no one can find them). — Damon Knight