Leontiadis Quotes & Sayings

He missed two people: a) the girl she was; b) the person she'd made him feel he might have been. A deep sigh escaped him. — Ken Bruen

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be. — Stewart O'Nan

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. — Voltaire

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true. — Cass Sunstein

Cynical, self-deprecating, affected, indiscriminate, patronizing, immature, as sloppy intellectually as he was with his desk, fickle, vain, virile, brooding, pedantic, philandering...in short, Byronic, Byronic, Byronic, almost to the point of parody. — Laura Elizabeth Woollett

As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole. — Bobby Jones

Most change initiatives have token elements of "change management," but these rarely address culture. They are mostly communications plans that inform but do not transform. — Larry Senn

It reminded him of the truth - who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his past would be right there with him. — Kayla Krantz

Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality. — Criss Jami

Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy.

--Penny Baxter to his son, Jody — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings