Staggs Construction Quotes & Sayings

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. — Bo Bennett

I want the reader to be in the shoes of everyday people who are facing incredible dangers and wonder if they would make the same choices. — Jeff Abbott

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is. — Leonardo Da Vinci

For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, they do it well. Sometimes they drink or bite their fingernails down to the wrist. They count stars and initials and wait: for something to happen, for something to pass, to change, to begin, to end. — Alice Hoffman

The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their cooler judgement by the party of the second part's glamour. Put it like this: the male sex is divided into rabbits and non-rabbits and the female sex into dashers and dormice, and the trouble is that the male rabbit has a way of getting attracted by the female dasher (who would be fine for the non-rabbit) and realizing too late that he ought to have been concentrating on some mild, gentle dormouse with whom he could settle down peacefully and nibble lettuce. — P.G. Wodehouse

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure. — Anton Chekhov

To a certain extent, I think I've become an animal-rights person. — Jason James Richter

Saint Lassie smiles upon me! It's Coyote, with a bag of goodies. — Kevin Hearne

He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald) — Patti Smith

All education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will. — Catharine Beecher

We take off for New Jersey. Gigantic landscape of factories, bridges, and railroads. And then, suddenly, East Orange and a countryside as postcard as can be, with thousands of neat and tidy cottages like toys in the midst of tall poplars and magnolias. I'm shown in the little public library, bright and gay, which the neighborhood uses a lot - with a huge room for children. (Finally a country where the children are really taken care of.) — Albert Camus

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. — Arthur Machen

Down here in the deep, dark South we know and live with the real world. Candy-Land idealism is quietlly suffocated in the relentless humidity. This is the world where fist meets face. This is where the calluses on a man's hand are bigger than his conscience, and dreams get drowned in sweat and tears. — Damien Echols

If you're a long-time Thor fan you know there's kind of a tradition from time to time of somebody else picking up that hammer. Beta Ray Bill was a horse-faced alien guy who picked up the hammer. At one point Thor was a frog. So I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while, which surprisingly we've never really seen before. — Jason Aaron

I should be glad to see a good change in anybody, Mr. Godfrey.' she answered, with the slightest discernible difference of tone, 'but it 'ud be better if no change was wanted. — George Eliot