Schiffmans Friendly Center Quotes & Sayings

You're not a secretary; you're a poet. What makes you think your life is going to be uncomplicated? What makes you think you can avoid all conflict? What makes you think you can avoid pain? Or passion? There's something to be said for passion. Can't you ever allow yourself and forgive yourself? — Erica Jong

A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan. — Pam Brown

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed to save lives not with their weapons, but through their competence and their character. And they do it. — Romeo LeBlanc

I also learned that the world is a bad place not because there's more bad people than good. It's because the good are complacent. — Dan Skinner

If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either. — Johanna Lindsey

You wouldn't believe the scope for mischief that the Beast of Redmond unintentionally builds into its Office software by letting it execute macros that have unlimited access to the hardware. I remember a particular post-prandial PowerPoint presentation where I was one of only two survivors (and the other wasn't entirely human). However, this is the first time I've seen a Word document eat a man's soul. — Charles Stross