Subcategory Example Quotes & Sayings

How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans. — David Mitchell

42. If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless.
If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be useless.
43. Therefore soldiers must be treated in the first instance with humanity, but kept under control by means of iron discipline. This is a certain road to victory.
44. If in training soldiers commands are habitually enforced, the army will be well-disciplined; if not, its discipline will be bad. — Sun Tzu

I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration? — Elaine Dundy

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image. — Oscar Wilde

The leader demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome. — John Haggai

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing. — Ingmar Bergman

On the Brevity of Our Ties
Ties in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short period only. Once this reality sinks in, we cannot help treasuring each moment of our brief association. — Kentetsu Takamori

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today. — Jack Valenti

Only the very stupid or the very deprived can any longer help knowing that the documents of civilization have been written in blood and tears, blood and tears no less real for being very remote. — Seamus Heaney