One Upmanship Board Quotes & Sayings

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists. — Edward Dahlberg

There's a lot of imagination in Asia, and I believe that the next Google will come from there, and the next Pixar. I believe that the great new media companies will come out of Asia and surpass the big media conglomerates that exist right now in the West. — Shekhar Kapur

For the United States, supporting international development is more than just an expression of our compassion. It is a vital investment in the free, prosperous, and peaceful international order that fundamentally serves our national interest. — Condoleezza Rice

A bite." She touched the hilt of her sword, the sword that he had given her. Oathkeeper. "My lord, you gave me a quest. — George R R Martin

Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him. — Scott Anderson

Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party. — Bernie Sanders

After all of this, I do not want to be eaten by some random demon who just wanted a postshow snack. — Michelle Knudsen

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend. — Giles Of Assisi

My reasons for coming to get married in Calcutta are complicated, and it's very hard to put it into a sentence. People ask me why. To me, it just felt like a very natural and exciting decision. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light. — Kim Addonizio

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story. — Avi

If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I know it's not a real ambition. There are always obstacles. The 'perversity of events,' as someone once called it, is always ready to lick us. Events are never right for achieving what we most want to achieve. If this were not so, there would be no real fun in being 17
or even in being alive. — Helen Gahagan Douglas

Take not for friends wolves and bankers; they both have voracious appetites - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Since neither of us needs sleep we take night buses, sharing earphones and listening to knitting podcasts. If anyone else on the bus notices anything about us they assume it's because they're drunk. I've — Helen Oyeyemi