Sophia's War Important Quotes & Sayings

This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple. At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, "How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?" — Warren G. Bennis

Remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world. — Joseph Fink

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer. — Edmund Hillary

I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church — Ferdinand Magellan

I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium. — Sarah Hughes

Ignorant of the place it had been and blind to where it was headed. — Clive Barker

People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them. — Chuck Palahniuk

Evanelle went to sleep that afternoon, lulled by the hum of her oxygen machine, thinking of how we always remember those we love when they're the happiest. She hoped that when her family thought of her, they would think of her at this moment, warm in her bed, clear air in her lungs, happy that she'd had this life, this strange, beautiful life full of strange gifts, given and received. — Sarah Addison Allen

Pregnant women are not supposed to do anything strenuous in their last months, he'd said to her, even though his mother had continued farming till the day she gave birth to each of her five children and had in fact given birth to his youngest brother under a guava tree at their farm behind Mawoh Quarters. — Imbolo Mbue

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority. — Bertrand Russell

Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation. — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

On dope he sometimes thought that all the televisions on Calchalk Street were softly cackling about Richard Tull: news flashes about his most recent failures, panel discussions about his obscurity, his neglect. — Martin Amis

What a beautiful bird, they kept telling one another, which was a weird thing to say about a dead thing without a head. — Tom Perrotta

I don't fear death. - I just don't want to be around when it happens. — Woody Allen