Negotiates Ruthlessly Quotes & Sayings

What is a gentleman, anyway?
He's a man who prefers the first edition of a book to the last edition of a newspaper. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself. — John Luther Adams

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London. — Arabella Weir

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY. — Fela Durotoye

I just love food, period. — Mary J. Blige

There isn't any such thing as being your own boss in this world unless you're a tramp, and then there's the constable. — George Horace Lorimer

There are things you think you won't be able to do, that need the actual to become possible. There are things that only become thinkable once you're already doing them. — Glen Duncan

She finally understood that sex was never about orgasms. Sex was merely a vehicle to achieve connection. It wasn't the destination that mattered - only the journey. — Joshua Edward Smith

The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion. — Barack Obama

The most important thing is to begin. — Jason Fried