Mcleskey Associates Quotes & Sayings

If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court. — Daphne Oz

In memory yet green, in joy still felt,
The scenes of life rise sharply into view.
We triumph; Life's disasters are undealt,
And while all else is old, the world is new. — Isaac Asimov

This country was founded by religious nuts with guns. — P. J. O'Rourke

Be fresh like a flower, be loving like water. — Debasish Mridha

Those who tried to fill the void with passion, were engulfed by it's flames. — Meeta Ahluwalia

Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered. — Ephrem The Syrian

Education for women is something that has plagued the world for a very long time. When I saw this problem firsthand, I knew I had to write about it. — Sahndra Fon Dufe

Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar. — Benjamin Franklin

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence
can never retract.
by this, and only this, we have existed. — T. S. Eliot

You want to go to the movies tomorrow night?" he asked, and Posey was so shocked she actually choked.
"What?" she managed.
"The movies? Tomorrow?"
"Um ... I, uh ... um ... what movie?"
He narrowed his eyes just a little, and Posey's nether parts gave a long, happy squeeze. Get his clothes off, those parts advised. We're lonely. — Kristan Higgins

The British imperialist logic that led to the Opium Wars reflected this: there was a lot of silver in China, so the idea was to sell Indian opium to the Chinese, get all that silver out in that lucrative sale, and thereby pay for all the goods that were being produced in Manchester and sent to India. When the Chinese resisted opening their doors to the opium trade, the British response was to knock them down with military force. — David Harvey

I'm asking you to make an adult decision. Are you ready to die, maybe alone, far from home, with no one even knowing what a hero you were? I can't even promise that your lives or your deaths will accomplish victory - Ironfist, p156 — Brent Weeks

True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring. — Elias Lyman Magoon