Pontefract Quotes & Sayings

Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you're dealing with writers and artists. Sometimes the only real difference between crazy people and artists is that artists write down what they imagine seeing. In the past few decades, hardly a week has gone by without a reader of my blog questioning my mental health. I understand that; I've read my writing too. — Scott Adams

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it. — Noam Chomsky

Open Leadership: the act of engaging others to influence and execute a coordinated and harmonious conclusion. — Dan Pontefract

You see de white gown she wears, richly embroidered, showing de family's wealth and influence," said Daphne authoritatively. "De red rose in her hair symbolizes her Spanish ancestry. De prayer book in her left hand to display de Catholic allegiance."
"What does the dog symbolize?" Sarah asked. Daphne blinked at her for a moment.
"De dog is just a dog," she said, finally. — Magnus Flyte

There is no heaven like mutual love. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life - we were just trying to make it to next week. — Taylor Swift

Employee Engagement: The state at which there is reciprocal trust between the employee and leadership to do what's right however, whenever and with whomever. — Dan Pontefract

I've been chased, shot, cut, beaten, and dragged a hundred leagues in the blink of an eye. I need a drink. — Jessica Khoury

It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance. — Jackie Stewart

When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too. — Cormac McCarthy

If work is to make a life the purpose of the organization might need to shift to include a greater degree of meaning. — Dan Pontefract

Each of us deserves a life where we get paid to fulfill our purpose, in an organization that consciously chooses to do good. — Dan Pontefract

The idea made Mahlia's chest tighten. It was her own fantasy, the secret one she sometimes curled up to when she went to bed, knowing that it was stupid, but still wanting it, wanting it to somehow all make sense. — Paolo Bacigalupi

The inner light is the true soul of a man. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Purpose Effect results in a higher calling, where individuals and organizations seek to improve society to benefit all stakeholders. — Dan Pontefract

Perhaps most surprising of all, the deposed and imprisoned King Henry was not murdered. This had been the fate of the two Plantagenet kings who had lost their crowns before him: Edward II died while in custody at Berkeley Castle in 1327, while Richard II was killed at Pontefract in 1400, the year following his deposition. Ironically, Henry's survival was perhaps a mark of his uniquely pitiful and ineffectual approach to kingship - for it was much harder to justify killing a man who had done nothing evil or tyrannical, but had earned his fate thanks to his dewy-eyed simplicity. Permitting Henry to remain alive was a bold decision that Edward IV would come to regret. But in 1465 it must have struck the king as a brave and magnanimous act. — Dan Jones

Your friend will argue with you. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature. — Henry David Thoreau

When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [ ... ] We have the same idea what's right and what's wrong, and that's got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you're most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love. — David Levithan

When we die, we die. No more. Once the spider-thread of life is severed, the human body is but a mass of corrupting vegetable matter. A feast for worms. That is all. Tell me, what is more ridiculous than the notion of an immortal soul; than the belief that when a man is dead, he remains alive, that when his life grinds to a halt, his soul
or whatever you call it
takes flight? — Marquis De Sade