Leaskdale Quotes & Sayings

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead. — Jay Samit

The war in Iraq is still going on. The British are helping. Mexico wants to help, but they need a ride over there. — Felipe Esparza

If we take into account the existence of our planet, we have to recognise that we are guests that spend a short and very determined period in this world, and all we leave behind is nuclear waste. — Gunter Grass

How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other. — F.E. Higgins

Greek writers of the fifth century B.C. have a way of speaking of, an attitude towards, religion, as though it were wholly a thing of joyful confidence, a friendly fellowship with the gods, whose service is but a high festival for man. In Homer sacrifice is but, as it were, the signal for a banquet of abundant roast flesh and sweet wine; we hear nothing of fasting, of cleansing, and atonement. This we might perhaps explain as part of the general splendid unreality of the heroic saga, but sober historians of the fifth century B.C. express the same spirit. Thucydides is assuredly by nature no reveller, yet religion is to him in the main 'a rest from toil.' He makes Pericles say: 'Moreover we have provided for our spirit very many opportunities of recreation, by the celebration of games and sacrifices throughout the year. — Jane Ellen Harrison

Someday I'll fly
Someday I'll soar
Someday I'll be so damn much more
Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for — John Mayer

Beatrice?" he whispered. "Yes," she said, moving so she could maintain eye contact with him until the last possible second. "I'm Beatrice. You were my first kiss. I fell asleep in your arms in your precious orchard." Gabriel sprang forward to stop the elevator door from closing. "Beatrice! Wait!" He — Sylvain Reynard

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective. — Elizabeth McGovern

The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we're in trouble — Toni Sorenson

Much they would like to share their joy at some triumph or their grief at some overwhelming sadness, it's always best and safest to keep silent. — Paulo Coelho

The only difference between people who are really living this way is they have habituated ways of being. — Rhonda Byrne

In the dark, there's a story being written, an act of wonder, of mayhem, and of beautiful acrobatic tricks that seek to reveal to the world a hope that we just can't seem to find - a hope that everyone will be allowed to dream. For reality is full of problems and the dreams are our keys to solve them. — Timothi Ellim

The Empire is all those who live within its borders, from the nobles to the lowest servant, even the slaves who work the fields. It must be seen as a whole, not as being embodied by some small but visible part, such as the Warlord or the High Council. — Raymond E. Feist

Some men dream of things as they are and say; "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say; "Why not? — George Bernard Shaw