Tompkinson Stephen Quotes & Sayings

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality. — Srikumar Rao

You can write a 1st paragraph that continues the same thought you expressed in your headline. If you stop a reader with a headline about house paint, you can be sure of at least one thing about that reader: He wants more info about house paint. You will not lose him as long as you continue to give him what he wants. — John Caples

You can do anything under one condition; you must continually abide in Jesus Christ — Sunday Adelaja

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and happiness of the people ... There is no king or queen bee distinguished from all the others by size or figure or beauty and variety of colors in the human hive. No man has yet produced any revelation from heaven in his favor, any divine communication to govern his fellow men. Nature throws us all into the world equal and alike ...
The preservation of liberty depends upon the intellectual and moral character of the people. As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation it is impossible they should be enslaved.
Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable ...
There is a danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living wth power to endanger public liberty. — David McCullough

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools. — Diane Ravitch

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost. — Valerie Jarrett

If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut. — Donald Trump

What at first had seemed to be no more than a small bump in the road was turned into a full-scale misfortune — Paul Auster

I'd yearned for many of the things that come only with a partner. Shared roots, love, an ineffable sense of belonging. — Audrey Faye

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. — S.I. Hayakawa

Always think in terms of solutions. Focusing on the problems usually gives us more of them. — Sam Owen