Njeguska Quotes & Sayings

Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period. — Luther Vandross

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'. — Willa Cather

I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life. — Sally Field

God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision — Sunday Adelaja

Sophia will not come. How mad he is to imagine, for a moment, that she might. Why should she risk everything for him? He can offer her nothing, only love. — Deborah Moggach

One look at the tall, gorgeous, green-eyed brooder.. and I'd been hooked. — Calista Fox

Smart people admit unarmed helplessness is not only irresponsible, but, statistically, such carelessness is asking for trouble. — Mark Walters

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. Love is mean, but it's good. It keeps us alive. — Tarryn Fisher

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. — Norman Vincent Peale

Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required. — Patrick Lencioni

That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca's experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it. — Frances Hardinge