Schadeken Quotes & Sayings

The hardest part of learning something new is not embracing new ideas, but letting go of old ones. — Todd Rose

Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is. — Kevin Drum

By the way, I have had zero press training. — Josh Trank

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism ... in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'. — Hamid Dabashi

Then she added thoughtfully, "And that old woman that turned me off so short got down so bad in the end that she was walking on two sticks." And I knew she was thinking, though she never said it: Here I am today, my eight children healthy and grown and three of them in college and me with hardly a sick day for years. Ain't Jesus wonderful? — Alice Walker

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions. — Peter Drucker

All right, here comes the philosophy. You can leave if you like but I suggest you stick it out. You don't measure your own success against the size or volume of the effect you're having. You gauge it from the difference you make to the subject you're working on. Is leading an army that wins a war really that much more satisfying than teaching a four-year-old to ride a bicycle? At our age," she said, "you go for the small things and you do them as well as you can." In the back of the pony trap, squashed beside his two large boxes, Siri still felt Daeng's lip prints on his cheek and heard her whisper, "Go for the small things and do them well." It would be his new mantra. Forget the planet, save the garden. — Colin Cotterill

Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic. — Mark Salling

Wait your turn, Lion, or I'll be wearing your eyeballs as jewelry. (Savitar) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

One of the first performances of faith is hearing. We hear the voice of God, not with the outward ear alone, but with the inward ear; we hear it as God's Word, and we believe it to be so; that is the "hearing" of faith. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me. — Tite Kubo

Jase glances up to smile at me. Don't worry, Sam. It's just us. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down. — Virginia Woolf