Perfable Quotes & Sayings

The truth is, when we see ourselves as a box on somebody's org chart, we're miscalculating our own potential. — David Sturt

Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them. — Joseph Joubert

When you love someone, nothing is impossible. — Melissa Foster

Strength and character are built through adversity. — Stephan Labossiere

In 1909 a factory inspector did an informal survey of 500 working children in 20 factories. She found that 412 of them would rather work in the terrible conditions of the factories than return to school.
In one experiment in Milwaukee, for example, 8,000 youth ... were asked if they would return full-time to school if they were paid about the same wages as they earned at work; only 16 said they would. — John Taylor Gatto

I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there. — Jonathan Safran Foer

In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide. — Kofi Annan

I'm a master of speaking silently - all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have been foolish enough to call it the 'Cradle of Liberty.' If it is the 'Cradle of Liberty,' they have rocked the child to death. — William Wells Brown

The good is the end toward which all things tend. — Boethius

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. — Francis Ford Coppola

People tend to want to live up to their friends' high regard. — David Brooks

I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great. — Gore Verbinski

For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible. — Charles Duhigg