Stamatios Quotes & Sayings

I wish that after the war against Saddam Hussein we had been more effective at rebuilding Iraq quickly. I think had we done it from the provinces, in, rather than from Baghdad, out, we might have been more successful. — Condoleezza Rice

Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure. — Randle Cotgrave

I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?' And I was embarrassed. I didn't actually know. — David J. C. MacKay

Ain't nothing in this world just for the taking...A man got to pay a fair price for taking...Matter of give a little, take a little. — Kate Grenville

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference. — Ali MacGraw

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it. It's the bind we were in. We had to have a commander with so much empathy that he would think like the buggers, understand them and anticipate them. So much compassion that he could win the love of his underlings and work with them like a perfect machine, as perfect as the buggers. But somebody with that much compassion could never be the killer we needed. Could never go into battle willing to win at all costs. If you knew, you couldn't do it. If you were the kind of person who would do it even if you knew, you could never have understood the buggers well enough. — Orson Scott Card

Leadership is rarely about what we want, son. I think too few among the Alethi elite realize that fact. — Brandon Sanderson

They're calling being black a look? How progressive of them. — Justine Larbalestier

And no matter what you are experiencing in your life right now, trust that all is good and unfolding in your best interests. It may not look pretty, but it is exactly what you need to learn for you to grow into the person you have been destined to become. — Robin S. Sharma

You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead. — Raymond E. Feist