Subletting Office Quotes & Sayings

And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one: — Nikolai Gogol

Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires. — Ken Keyes Jr.

A defense strategy favored by many "spiritual" people is an elaborate form of denial, an assertion that the individual has "gone beyond" the shadow qualities of sexuality, anger, passion, desire, and self-interest. Many religions cater exclusively to this strategy. Priests, ministers, gurus, and "enlightened masters" who adopt a posture of transcendent superiority have great appeal to people with similar defense systems, who are able to escape their personal confrontations by identifying as members of an elite, 'enlightened' group. — Starhawk

I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares. — Martha Cooley

When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are. — Brenda Ueland

We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave. — Swami Vivekananda

A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing - a flower in the process of expressing its potential. — Paulo Coelho

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously. — Cleveland Amory

I'm a free spirit - unfortunately for some. — Princess Diana

The idea behind our shoes is simple: they are as light as possible, very soft and made from the finest leather we can buy. We try to make a combination of something that looks fantastic and is at the same time fantastically comfortable. This is the type of luxury people want to buy now, things that they can use every day. — Diego Della Valle

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. — Mignon McLaughlin

The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the temples of understanding and devoted protectors of the sanctuary in the midst of uneducated anarchy. — Stephen Colbert

I TiVo 'CSI,' 'CSI: Miami,' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Young and The Restless' - my husband hates that one - and that's pretty much it. — Lindsay Davenport