Lawhead Consulting Quotes & Sayings

Help your children to see and notice poverty and differences in privilege that seem inhumane and unfair. Do this in a way that does not increase guilt or shame for what you have as a family, but rather helps them see their responsibility for sharing with others and keeping others in mind. — Polly Young-Eisendrath

Billy Dent stared in the mirror. He didn't quite recognize himself, but that was nothing new. Billy had almost always seen a stranger in mirrors, ever since childhood. At first he had hated and feared the figure that seemed to pursue him everywhere, stalking him through mirrors and store windows. But eventually Billy came to understand that what he saw in the mirror was what other people saw when they looked at him.
Other people somehow did not see the real Billy. They saw something that looked like them. Something that looked human and mortal. Something that looked like a prospect. — Barry Lyga

A recurrent theme in Kissinger's early writing is the historical ignorance of the typical American decision-maker. Lawyers, he remarked in 1968, are the "single most important group in Government, but they do have this drawback - a deficiency in history." For Kissinger, history was doubly important: as a source of illuminating analogies and as the defining factor in national self-understanding. Americans might doubt history's importance, but, as Kissinger wrote, "Europeans, living on a continent covered with ruins testifying to the fallibility of human foresight, feel in their bones that history is more complicated than systems analysis."
-Foreign Affairs, The Meaning of Kissinger: A Realist Reconsidered, By Niall Ferguson — Niall Ferguson

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. — Richard Brautigan

I held a precious, beautiful butterfly in my hands but let it get away. — Jessica Ingro

To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how we care for our children today. Tomorrow's world may be influenced by science and technology, but more than anything, it is already taking shape in the bodies and minds of our children. — Kofi Annan

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me. — Meister Eckhart

She was like his favorite candy - hard on the outside but a soft surprise on the inside. — Jaci Burton

The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule. — Dave Brat

Contrary to the delusions in your head, you're not every woman's fantasy."
"I never wanted to be every woman's fantasy. Just yours. — Lauren Layne

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story. — Chip Kidd

I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility ... — Charlotte Bronte

Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly. — Pablo Neruda