Predania Quotes & Sayings

Lucy Stone wasn't usually a clock watcher. Time didn't pass slowly for her; it galloped ahead of her. — Leslie Meier

Ah yet, ere I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books, both true, both wise and both delightful too.
— Abraham Cowley

All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths. — Gary Hamel

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse. — Alan Alda

Achievers are not scared to make mistakes or to fail because they are willing to learn from them. They are determined to start all over again and again until they grasp the concept. — Euginia Herlihy

Suddenly, the swan dropped down from the sky, flew low over the swamp, almost touching the water, just slow enough to have a closer look at the girl. The sight of the swan's cold eye staring straight into hers, made the girl feel exposed, hunted and found, while all those who had suddenly stopped eating fish, watched this big black thing look straight at the only person that nobody had ever bothered having a close look at. Her breathing went AWOL while her mind stitched row after row of fretting to strangle her breath: What are they thinking about me now? What did the swan have to single me out for and not anyone else standing around? What kind of premonition is this? Heart-thump thinking was really tricky for her. She feasted on a plague of outsidedness. It was always better never to have to think about what other people thought of her. — Alexis Wright

I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple. — Ming-Na Wen

And then there are the Germans. Do you know, they form words by just sticking them together, so that their word for 'Gatling gun' literally translates into 'mechanicaldeviceshootingwithoutcockingrifle?' The words get longer still. No word is too long for a German because it's quite impossible to bore a German. You cannot entertain a Norwegian, you cannot bore a German, and you cannot educate an American or a chimpanzee. — Stephen Hunter

There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days. — Cilla Black

We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord's ways from our own narrow view. — Spencer W. Kimball

wise men are remembered, they always are. — Alexander McCall Smith

It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul. — Max Lucado

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat. — Francois Hollande