Lect Quotes & Sayings

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em. — Sarah Orne Jewett

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

It has been sometimes argued that there is no truer criterion of the vitality of any given art-period than the power of the master-spirits of that time in grotesque; and certainly in the instance of Gothic art there is no disputing the proposition. — Thomas Hardy

But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. — Thomas Browne

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure. — Russell L. Ackoff

Because a man must choose. Therein lieth his strength: the power of his decisions. — Paulo Coelho

And I'd rather leave than be the one left. — Gemma Burgess

The United States, with all her time zones and logos, was the home to so many lonely souls, but none at that particular moment felt such an extraordinary loneliness as Blue Gene Mapother, who felt like someone had just signed the divorce papers that would separate himself from himself. — Joey Goebel

My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don't take myself too seriously. — Tina Fey

There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten. — Tom Robinson

You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time. — Lemar