Phil Fontaine Quotes & Sayings

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. — Lou Holtz

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that's loved. — Cameron Sinclair

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow. — David Maister

Even though she let these thoughts run as fast as they would, she still stopped when her mind moved towards real fear or dread or, worse, towards the thought that she was going to lose this world for ever, that she would never have an ordinary day again in this ordinary place, that the rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar. — Colm Toibin

My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me. — Lee Trevino

Conscience defined by the elders,
passed on to the next generations. — Toba Beta

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam. — Giada De Laurentiis

What a signal convenience is fame. Do we read all authors to grope our way to the best? No, but the world selects for us the best, and we select from these our best. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you wish to find the strength of being, read the Holy Bible. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance. — Stephen Mitchell

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

That may be so, but his faerie had suffered too much and he had had more than enough. If anybody so much as looked at her funny, he was going to come down hard on them with both size fourteen steel-toed boots. Then he would consider seriously the merits of evisceration. — Thea Harrison