Running A Tight Ship Quotes & Sayings

Everything changes when we finally cast off the shackles of striving for approval and acceptance outside of our own skin and instead decide that we are in fact good enough - that there is nothing we need to do to earn acceptance, approval, or love. When — Karen Kimsey-House

This diversity of social and semi-governmental institutions and organizations gives us not merely an insight into the immense complexity of an urban society, but also an inkling of the huge efforts and even violence required if they are to be disciplined, levelled down and made uniform. We come to realize all the things that must be done to ensure that the hundreds of newspapers and magazines follow the same linguistic line, the theatre repertoires are made to conform, and the libraries and bookshops are purged of the works of writers who have not kept up with the times. What must happen to ensure that museums, whose exhibitions and displays necessarily reflect long-term efforts, accept the inevitability of a new line and a new course? And what must be done to ensure that hundreds of schools and hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren feel ready to accept a new canon — Karl Schlogel

Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined and he's always prepared and knows his lines. — Kathy Bates

The continued appeal of anarchism can probably be attributed to its enduring affinity with both the rational and emotional impulses lying deep within us. It is an attitude, a way of life as well as a social philosophy. It presents a telling analysis of existing institutions and practices, and at the same time offers the prospect of a radically transformed society. — Peter Marshall

When is a pilgrim like a photograph? When the blend of acids and sentiment is just right. — Anne Carson

When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world. — Robin Sharma

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology. — Herbert Marcuse

Life like an empty dream flits by. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love permeates everything, the world is saturated with it, or is emptied of it. Always this beautiful or this bereft. — Anne Michaels

Fine," Vanto said. The musculature of his throat relaxes partially, but not fully. "Personally, I'd be a lot more concerned about him, but that's up to you. But I'm still the bottom man on the roster. Why do you even care about me?" "You are my translator. You hold my words in your hand, and their meanings. A misjudged translation will confuse or anger. A deliberate error could lead to death. — Timothy Zahn