Persads D Quotes & Sayings

Clarke's First Law - Corollary: When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right. — Isaac Asimov

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century. — Zephyr Teachout

If you look at it from just a pure economic basis, technology is replacing all of the jobs robots can do, and machinery is replacing the jobs that humans once held. If we don't train our children to imagine, to create, they're going to be unemployable. — Erwin McManus

That's not much," he noted. "I've never needed very much to be happy. I thought you knew that. — Kiera Cass

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution. — Shaquille O'Neal

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back. — Terri Sewell

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community ... The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs. — Theodore Roosevelt

She didn't need to say that she was going to die sooner or later while he wasn't, because the fact hung over their heads like the sword of Damocles that dangled by a single hair. — Thea Harrison

Ah, sin," Lucifer said. "Like the serpent that tricked Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. She devoured it, knowing she shouldn't."
"And she was punished for it."
"She was," Lucifer agreed. "But if you think for a moment she truly regretted it, you're wrong. That fruit was the most glorious thing she ever tasted - the sweetest, the ripest - and once you experience something so breathtaking, you never forget it. You never regret it. — J.M. Darhower

The will for deed I doe accept. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

Extreme emotions could be lethal. If I can't have you nobody will, and so forth. Death could set in. — Margaret Atwood

He wanted to pull her inside his skin and carry her around close to his heart. — Cooper McKenzie

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired. — Judith Guest