Philantropy Quotes & Sayings

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail. — James Lovelock

Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you. — Oprah Winfrey

So thick with cobwebs it seemed like skeletons had decorated for a party. Raven fought her way through the webs to the far wall and ripped the velvet cloth off the mirror. She saw her own reflection staring back - long black hair with purple highlights, dark eyebrows, — Shannon Hale

If it was not in your interests to betray me then you would have been loyal. — Philippa Gregory

I'm sure your feelings do you credit, John, but by Jove, you can't marry a female in a fit of philantropy! — Sheri Cobb South

The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. — Jack Welch

I know that I am very fortunate. I have the support of my family and friends, I do a job I enjoy and I have Catherine. — Prince William

Who were you before the world told you what you were not? — Bryant McGill

It is the West's provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself — Andrzej Stasiuk

The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck. — Douglas Adams

For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness. — David Cannadine

The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones ... — Joseph Priestley

Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change. — Brandon Sanderson