Mykola Leontovych Quotes & Sayings

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands. — Aristotle.

The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth. — Hans Christian Andersen

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. — Walter Scott

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights. — Irene Khan

Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases: groups of nine generate fewer and poorer ideas compared to groups of six, which do worse than groups of four. The "evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups," writes the organizational psychologist Adrian Furnham. "If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority." The one exception to this is online brainstorming. — Susan Cain

The story the data tells us is often the one we'd like to hear, and we usually make sure that it has a happy ending. — Nate Silver

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform. — Hal Price

Strength, Confidence
Original Thought
I Seek You Out
Until Your Caught — Lawren Leo

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism. — Mario Bunge

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big. — Kate Greenaway

The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at the start. It announces a total contrast with what has gone before, and the reader is thereby primed for the change. — William Zinsser

We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic out of the world. Life becomes harder, colder. And everything we do in our lives, from that day on, is our way of coping with that one moment. We stop living and we merely exist. We either choose to move on from that, or we let it consume us. — Robin Parrish

There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

The only way you can make a deal is if you're ready to blow it. — Robert Evans