Piaranthus Quotes & Sayings

Respect the sheep. — Sarah Rees Brennan

What was wrong with the past?" asked Mama Ramotswe. She intended the question seriously. There were too many people who took the view that the past was bad, that we should rid ourselves of all traces of it as soon as possible. But the past was not bad; some of it may have been less than perfect-- there had been cruelties then that we had done well to get rid of-- but there had also been plenty of good things. There had been the old Botswana ways, the courtesy and the kindness; there had been the attitude that you should find time for other people and not always be in a desperate rush; there had been the belief that you should listen to other people, should talk to them, rather than spend all your time fiddling with your electronic gadgets; there had been the view that it was a good thing to sit under a tree sometimes and look up at the sky and think about cattle or pumpkins or non-electric things like that. — Alexander McCall Smith

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible. — Laurie Simmons

Comedians love it when people point and laugh at them; naturists don't, despite many of them being funnier. — Roy Station

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience. — Demetri Martin

The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war. — Martin Van Creveld

The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do. — Theresa May

I am still full of ambition. — Jan Timman

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. — Mark Gungor