Presaged Def Quotes & Sayings

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness. — Albert Camus

Everybody needs an editor. — Pete Hamill

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. — Charles Spurgeon

What most people want in a leader is something that's very difficult to find: we want someone who listens ... The secret, Reagan's secret, is to listen, to value what you hear, and then to make a decision even if it contradicts the very people you are listening to. Reagan impressed his advisers, his adversaries, and his voters by actively listening. People want to be sure you hear what they said - they're less focused on whether or not you do what they said. — Seth Godin

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here. — Quincy Jones

When we use the logic of consequence, we can always find reasons not to take risks. The — Adam M. Grant

The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there, and then consciously creates what will be experienced next within the self through the illusions. When facing any life experience, there is a formula, a process, through which you may choose to move through mastery. Simply make the following statements: One, nothing in my world is real. Two, The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it. Three, I am who I say I am, and my experience is what I say it is. This is how to work with the illusions of life. — Neale Donald Walsch

Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities. — Fred Rogers

Ivy gave the woman's hand a firm squeeze before letting it go. "What do you need?" she asked. "We're holding up." That, too, sounded like a rote reply, recited over and over again in hopes that it might somehow become the truth. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. — Samuel Johnson

Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound reverbs no hollowness. — William Shakespeare

Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future. — Joseph Beuys

Never leave the one you love for the one you like, it usually doesn't turn out right. — Nako

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton. — Al Gore

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want him to, doesn't mean he doesn't love you with everything he has. | Learned that the hard way. — Ika Natassa