Maxime Du Camp Quotes & Sayings

Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'. — Alain De Botton

It takes time,patience and endurance to become a devout Muslim. No one, not even God, expects anyone to become an angel overnight. That's fortunate, I thought, because I sensed that the road ahead might be a long one — Kristiane Backer

Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error. — Kathryn Kuhlman

Are you also morally opposed to being friends? Does that mysteriously lead to immediate babies, too? — Kiersten White

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service. — Napoleon Hill

The overall effect of the GEA will be to increase unit production costs, diminish competitiveness, cut the rate of return to capital in key sectors, reduce employment, and make households worse off, — Ross McKitrick

Most execs, particularly first-time CEOs who get good at one thing, can only dance what they know how to dance. — Brad Stone

Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination. — Stephen Covey

Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual. — Tom Boellstorff

Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun? — Mark Twain

What is involved in such issues, in the end, is learning to respect the freedom of the dead to be dead; honoring the dead in their status as dead people, and refraining from harassment of the dead by refusing to mythologize the dead or enshrine them. What is at stake is recognition by those in grief of the right of the dead to be regarded mortally, which is to say, to be treated humanly in death. — William Stringfellow