Placemats For Round Tables Quotes & Sayings

Without focusing and getting to clarity you cannot lead. You cannot motivate. You cannot plan. You cannot communicate. — Bobb Biehl

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it. — Antony Jay

The word "buccaneer" originated in a native people's term for smokehouse, which the French pronounced boucan. The original boucaniers didn't board ships and steal treasure; they were the jerky kings of the Western Hemisphere. — Tom Reiss

I feel that right from the start the players were prepared to experience catastrophic results with comments like: 'It's going to be tough and we are going to need time'. — Lilian Thuram

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise. — Samuel Rutherford

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours. — James M. Barrie

The wind is tossing the lilacs,
The new leaves laugh in the sun,
And the petals fall on the orchard wall,
But for me the spring is done.
Beneath the apple blossoms
I go a wintry way,
For love that smiled in April
Is false to me in May. — Sara Teasdale

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics. — Asghar Farhadi

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it. — Robert Southey

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them. — David Mitchell

He that tells a secret is anothers servant.
[He that tells a secret is another's servant.] — George Herbert

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off. — Karl Marx

In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous parts of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world. Primitive man once experienced the rich and sparkling flood of the senses fully. Children experience it for a few months-until "normal" training, conditioning, close the doors on this other world, usually for good. Somehow, the drugs opened these ancient doors. And through them modern man may at last go, and rediscover his divine birthright ... — Tom Wolfe

Aagragaah. It mean lit'rally der time when you see dem little pebbles and you jus' know dere's gonna be a great big landslide on toppa you and it already too late to run. Dat moment, dat's aagragaah. — Terry Pratchett