Ptahhotep Pronounced Quotes & Sayings

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry. — Jason Mraz

When I was Mare Barrow of the Stilts, I thought the same way. I wondered what would happen if I survived conscription, and saw what that future held. A friendly marriage to the fish boy with green eyes, children we could love, a poor stilt home. It seemed like a dream back then, an impossibility. And it still is. It always will be. I do not love Kilorn, not the way he wants me to. I never will. — Victoria Aveyard

To know and not to do is not yet to know. — Laozi

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies. — Black Kettle

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring
this is one of the harshest human miseries. — Wislawa Szymborska

Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control. — Laura Schlessinger

He asked himself whether human society could have the right also to subject its members,on the one hand,to its crazy lack of foresight and,on the other,to its pitiless foresight,and to hold a poor man forever between a lack and an excess-lack of work and excess of punishment — Victor Hugo

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange - — Alexandre Dumas