Lesseon Quotes & Sayings

What have I done to deserve that look? He asked in a low voice so that nobody else could hear. — Julianne Donaldson

Those prisoners who were eventually liberated and returned to the Soviet Union - well over one and a half million - had to face extensive discrimination following an order issued by Stalin in August 1941 equating surrender with treason. Many of them were despatched to the labour camps of the Gulag after being screened by Soviet military counter-intelligence. Despite attempts after Stalin's death by top military leader Marshal Georgi Zhukov to end discrimination against former prisoners of war, they were not formally rehabilitated until 1994.217 — Richard J. Evans

The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas. — Nelson Mandela

The Ego Rip
Step 1: Make a list of all your short comings.
Step 2: Grasp list firmly in both hands.
Step 3: Rip list to shreds.
Step 4: Consider yourself perfect. — Jim Davis

In essence, what Innocentive does is it provides a platform where you can post a really challenging problem and offer a reward to anybody who can come and provide a solution. And it's been remarkably effective. People get very challenging problems and get solutions to those problems. — John Hagel III

Everyone loves the underdog. Until they have to take his side. — Philipp Meyer

These people who were supposed to be my family, who had conspired to look enough like me to serve as a critique of my appearance ... — Ben Marcus

Truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear. — Alessandro Nivola

U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy. — Cliff Stearns

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than. — Criss Jami

The great do not always prevail. — Aesop