Langleterre Sur Quotes & Sayings

Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom — Warren Buffett

It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived. — Robin Hobb

It's clear he still feels something, but what? Is the whole reason he made such a big deal about wanting to talk to me so he could have a chance to apologize? Well, I don't want his apology. You don't get to break someone's heart and think everything is fine just because you say sorry. That's just not fair. — Carey Heywood

But there are worse things than people you don't care about not liking you. — Alyssa Brugman

In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death. — Gunter Grass

I'm always trying to swim to new ground. — PJ Harvey

Perhaps it was simple reflex, her own instinct for survival. Or perhaps it had been his
words, bringing back the horror of her mother's death. But when he reached for the
satchel, Adrianne ignored the knife and brought her foot up hard between his legs. The
knife clattered to the ground only seconds before he did.
"Bastard," she muttered as she sent the knife careening into the dark. "Now your pride's
as small as your brain and just as useless."
"Well put," Philip said as he came up behind her. — Nora Roberts

A famous Japanese Zen master, Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, said that unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don't know what you're talking about. Some fifty years ago a UCLA professor told me the same thing about applied mathematics. We like to hide from the truth behind foreign-sounding words or mathematical lingo. There's a saying: The truth is always encountered but rarely perceived. If we don't perceive it, we can't help ourselves and we can't much help anyone else. — Jeff Bridges

I see the calm and hear the calm and know the calm can't last. Not for me, not for him, not for Kingston, not for Jamaica. For — Marlon James

One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand. — Kevin Kwan

People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done. — Steve Jobs

Gross National Product is our Holy Grail. — Stewart Udall

It was a cycle of whimpers and bangs, gruesome beginnings and bloody ends. — Victoria Schwab

I was a total bad girl growing up. — Elizabeth Reaser