Madalan Quotes & Sayings

There is no "one" way to be a perfect leader, but there are a million ways to be a good one. — Mark W. Boyer

Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday - opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive to protecting your family, it's much harder to not get defensive when somebody asks you those really rude questions about what your wife and your children are thinking and feeling at that exact moment. — Stephen Ambrose

If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma. — Frederick Lenz

I brush my teeth with a leg of fried chicken, and gravy is my toothpaste. — Jarod Kintz

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are free at last to believe in ourselves. — David Malouf

I haven't changed, Willie," Robert said to the wall. "No, but you ain't the same neither," she replied. — Yaa Gyasi

The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation. — Bill Cosby

A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death. — P. J. O'Rourke

Belagren: I can't build a whole religion on a probablity, Madalan.
Madalan: Not when sex, drugs and human sacrifices work so much better. — Jennifer Fallon

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't. — Ben Gibbard

There must be real gods
see, the painted gods
how fair! — Hilda Doolittle

The miracle of the moment! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Believing and investing in yourself is the best way to shift your thinking from a paradigm of excuses to one of solutions. — Farshad Asl