Quotes & Sayings About Thanking Mentors

People who intend only to serve public interest are led by invisible hand to private interest which was no part of their intention. — Milton Friedman

The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense. — David Ignatius

It's the way I make music, I will take two ideas and smash them together and if they sit well together for me then that's fine, and it's the same with the lyrics - if I see a couple of lines and I like the way they look on the page then I'll use them. I find they take on a meaning of their own, it's very difficult to explain how I actually go about all that. — Thighpaulsandra

Hope is the denial of reality. - Raistlin — Margaret Weis

My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off! — Catherine Zeta-Jones

I wanted to be with him no matter what was happening around us. That meeting him again rekindled those embers of hope in my heart, and my fears of losing him again. — Amy Silva

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy. — Jimenez Lai

The first thing we have to do," I told Luke the next day, "is find a nice place we can rent or sublet. Should we focus on the downtown area? Montrose? Or would you be open to finding something close by in Sugar Land? We could always go to Austin, but we'd have to take care to avoid you-know-who. And it's a lot more expensive to rent in Austin."
Luke looked contemplative, sucking slowly on the bottle as if he were mulling the possibilities.
"Are you thinking it over?" I asked him. "Or are you working on another dirty diaper?"
-Ella & Luke — Lisa Kleypas

I'm soooo happy you're my Dad
And soooo I want to say
I love you, Dad, and wish you
A sooo very best birthday — John Walter Bratton

Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are emotionally connected. By parenting not for obedience but for relationship, kids are naturally inclined to follow your lead. — Kelly Bartlett

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. That is my religion, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offended, wounded, mortified and injured by a thousand different blasphemies against it. When the fundamental canons of truth, honesty, compassion and decency are hourly assaulted by fatuous bishops, pompous, illiberal and ignorant priests, politicians and prelates, sanctimonious censors, self-appointed moralists and busy-bodies, what recourse of ancient laws have I? None whatever. Nor would I ask for any. For unlike these blistering imbeciles my belief in my religion is strong and I know that lies will always fail and indecency and intolerance will always perish. — Stephen Fry

There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes. — Michael Eric Dyson

Randy wondered if the coupling of a lonely divorcee and a garden naif would constitute the punchline to some cosmic lesson, if their amoral actions would embody for future generations the baser instincts of humankind. His head spun. His stomach turned. His loins sighed in mollification." -Mark Doyon, "Green Grow the Azaleas — Mark Doyon