Pietre Pretioase Quotes & Sayings

At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong. — Kevin Allen

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide ... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism. — Jesse Ventura

Saracen Rue knows things."
That's what Dexter Vex was told all those hundreds of years ago before they first met. He couldn't remember who had introduced them - Skulduggery? Ravel? Ghastly maybe - but when he'd been asked what magical discipline Saracen had chosen, he'd been assured that "Saracen Rue knows things." That was all. — Derek Landy

In order to love others I need to be full of it myself — Odille Rault

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped — Benjamin Franklin

A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody,that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object, not in all respects, but in reference to a sort of idea, which I have sometimes called the ground of the representamen. — Charles Sanders Peirce

It's foolish to trump up stories about how primitive humans built pyramids, stone henge or other ancient giant structures. The only logical explanation is ... those relics ain't built by human kind. It is easier to admit this pity explanation than to justify otherwise. — Toba Beta

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words. — Ignatius Of Loyola

The prejudice of the Americans against monarchy, which Mr. Lloyd George made no attempt to counteract, had made it clear to the beaten Empire that it would have better treatment from the Allies as a republic than as a monarchy. Wise policy would have crowned and fortified the Weimar Republic with a constitutional sovereign in the person of an infant grandson of the Kaiser, under a Council of Regency. — Winston S. Churchill

'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me. — Spike Jonze

Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake. — Pete Rozelle

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you. — Beth Moore

We want too much but enjoy too little. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching. — Christina Baker Kline

There is almost always a major blip for whatever reason and we have learnt to expect it and not to panic. — Peter Cundill