Moniece Slaughter Quotes & Sayings

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want. — Randy Alcorn

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic ... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure. — Daniel Kahneman

Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie."
"Because life is an adventure, of course."
"I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course. — Kate Atkinson

Right then, it didn't matter what his reasons were. All I knew that I was sick of him breaking my heart. — Amanda Hocking

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life. — Pat Conroy

Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. This time it must of its nature be an imaginary one. I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes:
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Here it is in modern English:
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account. — George Orwell

I missed the days when I would silently judge seemingly crazy people in a park, instead of being one of them. — Drew Hayes

Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together. — John Oates

No one has all the answers. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have all the answers for good management. — W. Edwards Deming

Do you usually show so little self restraint, special agent? Or do you ask all the girls to marry you? — Tate Hallaway

Come, tears, confound,' he cried. 'Out, sword, and wound the left breast of Pyramus. Ay, that left breast where his heart doth hop. — Eloisa James

Apology means nothing without change, you have to follow it up with action. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau