Schemel Forum Quotes & Sayings

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action — Jean Dubuffet

I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that's what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner. — Chris Paul

I don't think God's through with me. I really believe he thinks there's still some good things I can do. — Cate Edwards

The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in this! — Peter Julian Eymard

A tremor of apprehension encircled the room. None of the ladies required any preparation to pronounce on a question of morals; but when they were called ethics it was different. The club, when fresh from the "Encyclopedia Brittanica," the "Reader's Handbook" or Smith's "Classical Dictionary," could deal confidently with any subject; but when taken unawares it had been known to define agnosticism as a heresy of the Early Church and Professor Froude as a distinguished histologist; and such minor members as Mrs. Leveret still secretly regarded ethics as something vaguely pagan. — Edith Wharton

He thought of partners as people who had come together out of a complex set of shared values and interests, not out of short-term economic convenience. — Alice Schroeder

You have to believe in its principles. Anything is possible, as long as it's for the good of the world. Make the exception. Live exceptionally. And if you can't do that, maybe we should consider whether you're right for the project. Think about it, then let's talk tomorrow. — Amy Tan

Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore — Euripides

It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. — Publilius Syrus

When you a get a job you are not qualified for, it will be evil to you and to your community. — Sunday Adelaja

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so. — Robert Louis Stevenson

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. — John Petit-Senn

Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems. — Chris Argyris