Richard Tawney Quotes & Sayings

He would have recoiled still more had he been aware that her attachment rose unsolicited, and was bestowed where it awakened no reciprocation of sentiment; for the minute he discovered its existence, he laid the blame on Heathcliff's deliberate designing. — Emily Bronte

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' — Margaret Atwood

If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks. — Freddy Rodriguez

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday. — Peter Drucker

The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act ... An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent. — Saul Alinsky

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. — Walt Disney Company

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living. — Finley Peter Dunne

They have, to be sure, their proportion of ne'er-do-weels, their pedants and lettered fools, but they have a surprisingly small proportion of them; they have not that culture of manner which we instinctively associate with university men, forgetting that in reality it is the heritage from cultured homes, and that no people a generation removed from slavery can escape a certain unpleasant rawness and gaucherie, despite the best of — W.E.B. Du Bois

Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God. — David Jeremiah

My name is Gilan. The King wants to see you. — John Flanagan

Often individuals whose mental gifts so far outpaced their contemporaries, tended to lack the social graces commensurate with their other accomplishments. — Kirsten Beyer

Yours till submarines have screen doors. — Carole Geithner

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions. — Ha Jin

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. — Maria Robinson