Richesses Du Quotes & Sayings

Be careful, Princess. When waging a war of the heart, you must only fight if you are absolutely sure you can win. — Sherry D. Ficklin

History is not an agreed-upon fiction but what gets made in a crowded room; what is said isn't what's heard, and what's heard isn't what gets repeated. Civilization is an agreement to keep people from shouting 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, but the moments we call historical occur when there is a fire in a crowded theater; and then we all try to remember afterward when we heard it, and if we ever really smelled smoke, and who went first and what they said. The indeterminancy is built into the emotion of the moment. The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping and the room was full. — Adam Gopnik

A good company offers excellent products and services. A great company also offers excellent products and services but also strives to make the world a better place. — Philip Kotler

the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights. — Thom Hartmann

Life sometimes throws you a bomb when all you want is a hug. — J.D. Wylde

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. — Arthur Miller

Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us. — Mary Pope Osborne

I sit up in bed and watch her fiddle about in the back of my wardrobe. I think she's got a plan. That's what's good about Zoey. She'd better hurry up though, because I'm starting to think of things like carrots. And air. And ducks. And pear trees. Velvet and silk. Lakes. I'm going to miss ice. And the sofa. And the lounge. And the way Cal loves magic tricks. And white things- milk, snow, swans. — Jenny Downham

The way I see it, every life is a pile of good and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant. — The Doctor

As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren't supposed to say. And in many ways, that's what my job is today; it's getting people to tell me things that they probably are otherwise not supposed to say. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

If you live half as long, is the time you spend twice as important? — Bradley Somer

We can never fully impact others to change if there is no evidence of change in our lives. — E'yen A. Gardner