Pontecorvo Stirling Quotes & Sayings

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. — Mark Twain

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. — Reinhold Niebuhr

The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities. — Ludwig Von Mises

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins. — Tara Brach

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams. — Oscar Wilde

I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it — Albert Pike

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar. — Lee Daniels