Laypersons Terms Quotes & Sayings

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. — Elie Wiesel

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? — Chester W. Nimitz

It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them. — John Quincy Adams

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau