Layard The Liberator Quotes & Sayings

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places. — Olivia Williams

There's huge satisfaction in that, but I've got to credit all the doctors and trainers in Cleveland. — Bob Wickman

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. — Ovid

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. — C.S. Lewis

Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was an extremely good writer and Willa Cather was a great artist. — Truman Capote

Can you be disappointed by the loss of something that had only begun to flicker with the promise of existence? — Abigail Johnson

If salvation and help are to come, it is through the child ; for the child is the constructor of man. — Maria Montessori

When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself. — Neil T. Anderson

I sigh. "But if you'd talked to Jules - if she could hear you ... " My voice trails off.
"Then you wouldn't feel quite so crazy?" Oliver asks gently. "Can't you believe in me, if I believe in you? — Jodi Picoult

We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private. — Warren Buffett