Milliarden Quotes & Sayings

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged. — Karen Armstrong

Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital. — Stephen Covey

You cannot make somebody love something. They must have love in their heart first. — Alexander McCall Smith

I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else. — Abraham Lincoln

I had to put this slim volume back into my bookshelf and drink a J&B on the rocks, followed by two Xanax, to recover from the effort. — Bret Easton Ellis

We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate. — Joan Didion

Sometimes this genius goes dark and drowns in the bitter wells of his heart. — Clemens Brentano

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance. — Frances Hesselbein

I pay my teachers very well, because pedagogy is the most important of all the sciences, — Boris Akunin

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. — Simone De Beauvoir

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove. — Kami Garcia