Promne Group Quotes & Sayings

...grit grows as we figure out our life philosophy, learn to dust ourselves off after rejection and disappointment, and learn to tell the difference between low-level goals that should be abandoned quickly and higher-level goals that demand more tenacity. The maturation story is that we develop the capacity for long-term passion and perseverance as we get older. — Angela Duckworth

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. — R. Buckminster Fuller

One lost an IQ point for every year spent on the West Coast — Truman Capote

Women are books, and men the readers be... — Benjamin Franklin

Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep. — Thomas Jefferson

Silvers don't mind pain, but we are proud. Pride, dignity, honor; those are things no ability can replace. — Victoria Aveyard

It's been a year and 3 months since we've kissed, and I rather have the ghost of his mouth on my lips than kiss anyone else. — Alishah Khan

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it. — Julian Fellowes

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity. — Tom Robbins

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction. — Jerry Brown

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology. — Nina Fedoroff

She had a lifetime of practice at arriving late in a family of four and being loved by all. — Jonathan Franzen