Languishments Quotes & Sayings

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route. — Malcolm Forbes

We see Stage Two mostly when people believe they cannot act creatively, where jobs are so mechanized that they feel like part of a machine. — Dave Logan

Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring - the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity - he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to death.
Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity! — Herman Melville

Do good or die trying. — Kim Holden

The point of freewriting is to get past the voice inside your head that tells you your ideas aren't good enough, your words aren't good enough, you're no writer and so forth. — M. Molly Backes

Don't read any more into the book than is intended. I am not a crook. Seriously. This is fiction and I'm sticking to that statement. Dedication — Timothy Freriks

When I set a goal, I work hard to achieve it. — Lisa Leslie

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn. — Norman Douglas

Uniformity is not the key to successful teamwork. The glue that holds a team together is unity of purpose. — John C. Maxwell

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason — W.C. Fields

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. — James A. Garfield

Kotter and Cohen observed that, in almost all successful change efforts, the sequence of change is not ANALYZE-THINK-CHANGE, but rather SEE-FEEL-CHANGE. You — Chip Heath

What are you doing?" she whispered against his lips.
He gave her a lopsided grin, as one of his fingers slid inside. "Making you feel really, really good?"
She moaned, which pleased him. If she'd managed intelligible speech he would have known he wasn't doing his job correctly.
-Kate & Anthony — Julia Quinn

Liar." I accused.
He laughed and leaned in, close enough for only me to hear his response. "Yes, baby. And so are you. — Alessandra Torre

I want you to give them back, Flambeau, and I want you to give up this life. There is still youth and honour and humour in you; don't fancy they will last in that trade. Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down. The kind man drinks and turns cruel; the frank man kills and lies about it. Many a man I've known started like you to be an honest outlaw, a merry robber of the rich, and ended stamped into slime. Maurice Blum started out as an anarchist of principle, a father of the poor; he ended a greasy spy and tale-bearer that both sides used and despised. Harry Burke started his free money movement sincerely enough; now he's sponging on a half-starved sister for endless brandies and sodas. Lord — G.K. Chesterton