Quiet Confidence Tcu Quotes & Sayings

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.' — Margaret Thatcher

Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power. — Andrew Jackson

Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating. — J. Martin Klotsche

He was a newspaperman,' he said, 'but there's some people who should never leave Savannah. — Pete Dexter

Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"? — Erik Naggum