Mcewans Hours Quotes & Sayings

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay. — Mark Twain

All languages that derive from Latin form the word "compassion" by combining the prefix meaning "with" (com-) and the root meaning "suffering" (Late Latin, passio). In other languages, Czech, Polish, German, and Swedish, for instance - this word is translated by a noun formed of an equivalent prefix combined with the word that means "feeling".
In languages that derive from Latin, "compassion" means: we cannot look on coolly as others suffer; or, we sympathize with those who suffer. Another word with approximately the same meaning, "pity", connotes a certain condescension towards the sufferer. "To take pity on a woman" means that we are better off than she, that we stoop to her level, lower ourselves.
That is why the word "compassion" generally inspires suspicion; it designates what is considered an inferior, second-rate sentiment that has little to do with love. To love someone out of compassion means not really to love. — Milan Kundera

In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem. — Thomas L. Friedman

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step. — Jack Welch

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time. — Jodi Picoult

That is thy home burning. That is the Normans' work, and never thee forget it! — Rosemary Sutcliff

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly. — Franz Kafka

Never invest in a business you don't understand. — Warren Buffett

Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song. — J.R.R. Tolkien

because everyone knew that saying it out loud made it true. — Jill Shalvis

Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy. — Ilona Andrews

Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it. — Roger Babson

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable. — Joss Whedon