Sir Richard Hadlee Quotes & Sayings

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder. — Samuel Johnson

I have learned that it is not the truth that will hurt you - it is the lies. — Marion Elizabeth Witte

He has the greatest love who forgives his greatest enemies. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?' — Caroll Spinney

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive. — Eric Schmidt

Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven." — Mark Hart

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness. — Eckhart Tolle

The modern man needs to catch on to the fact that women want to be treated as equals, but only when it suits us. the modern woman's fierce need for independence doesn't mean we want to pay for our half of a meal, or that we don't want a man to hold a door open for us. We still want to be looked after, but on our terms. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly. — Mark Twain

There are people who say, 'Oh every time Catholics make the sign of the cross they re-crucify Christ.' Look, that's what comes under the theological classification of happy horse manure! That's bologna, absolute bologna! They don't know anything about our religion, and I don't purport to know anything about theirs. I respect theirs, respect ours. When we make the sign of the cross, we are simply making a statement of faith. I believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and I believe in the sign of the cross, because that is the sign of our salvation! — John Corapi

the upper classes instinctively abandoned idleness and invented meritocracy lest universal suffrage deprive them of everything they owned. — Thomas Piketty