Le Grand Cahier Quotes & Sayings

I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven. — Harriette Wilson

God so big that He is the God of multiple Universes, not just one little earth. Why is it so darn hard for Christians to take God out of that little box, and let God be GOD! — Steven K. Craig

I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago's South Side, how narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair. I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder
alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware
is inadequate to the task. I know that the hardening of lines, the embrace of fundamentalism and tribe, dooms us all. — Barack Obama

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. — Helen Keller

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better. — Britta Phillips

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.' — Margaret Cho

The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively. — Avinash Kaushik

Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation - without the pestilence of panic or fear. — Ryan Holiday

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of. — Phineas Quimby

There's nothing wrong with continuous improvement and smart business tactics, but the tail is wagging the dog when market research becomes more important than technical innovation. — Eric Schmidt