Rarely Seen But Powerful Leader Quotes & Sayings

The dead shook off their rust of living and seized up steel. Their lips quivered with the defiance of innocents, with manipulations of politicians and their interchangeable dreams, and with the insanity of thugs who don't even know for which parties they commit their atrocities. — Ben Okri

In the outer realm, settlers didn't care about supple skin or glossy pink hair. Practical skills were the real beauty in those colonies, and for once, she would be stunning. — Melissa Landers

At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight. — Wadah Khanfar

I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket. — Don Rickles

The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley's favorite things - fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers - and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called rabbit food. — J.K. Rowling

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life — Charlie Munger

The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them. — Sigmund Freud

My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?' — Trey Parker

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change — Bruce Dickinson

How alone this was going to be. — Joyce Carol Oates

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work. — Wendell Berry

Service to others leads to greatness. — Jim Rohn

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace. — Shannon L. Alder

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature. — Henry David Thoreau

This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy. — Archibald Geikie