Tirant Deau Quotes & Sayings

[I]t's necessary to exert very great foresight every time you go to blame or praise a man, so that you won't speak incorrectly ... For you shouldn't suppose that, while stones are sacred and pieces of wood, and birds, and snakes, human beings are not. Rather of all these things, the most sacred is the good human being, while the most polluted is the wicked.
Speech attributed to Socrates in Plato, Minos 319a, trans. Thomas L. Pangle, in The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, ed. Thomas L. Pangle (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), 63. — Plato

You can really Lead Without a Title. — Robin Sharma

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. — Theodore Levitt

And then what?" she forced herself to ask, even though she already knew the answer. "What were you going to do after you and Max were done with each other?" It seemed obscene somehow, the way he kept bringing Max into this. Which was silly, of course. "We were going to part friends. Go back to the way things always were. No expectations. No embarrassment." He — Virna DePaul

Serenity comes from knowing what you can and can't change, Nancy — Patricia Cornwell

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime. — Joe Louis

We pull on to the road, where our only company are the wandering cattle, who have become commonplace as traffic lights. Lethargic and listless, they look like they've been roaming the roads of Guinea since the dawn of time. And no doubt they will continue to long after we're gone. — Tom Hiddleston

But if we start raising children differently, then in fifty years, in a hundred years, boys will no longer have the pressure of proving their masculinity by material means. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed We have not truly known the Spring. — Robert Underwood Johnson

Some people think politeness is an invitation to invade. — Alice Walker

For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the U.S. as a geopolitical player. — Mohsin Hamid

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data. — Clive Granger