Transdev Quotes & Sayings

It is hard to realize today that "government" during the American Civil War a hundred years ago meant the merest handful of people. Lincoln's Secretary of War had fewer than fifty civilian subordinates, most of them not "executives" and policy-makers but telegraph clerks. The entire Washington establishment of the U.S. government in Theodore Roosevelt's time, around 1900, could be comfortably housed in any one of the government buildings along the Mall today. — Peter F. Drucker

You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger. — Carrie Jones

His life had been tied to the past. He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history - a known past, a projectable future. But she was the breaking of the wave. Suddenly there was a beach, the unpredictable ... new life. Past and future stopped at the beach: that was how he'd set it out. But he wanted to believe it too, the same way he loved her, past all words - believe that no matter how bad the time, nothing was fixed, everything could be changed and she could always deny the dark sea at his back, love it away. And (selfishly) that from a somber youth, squarely founded on Death - along for Death's ride - he might, with her, find his way to life and to joy. — Thomas Pynchon

Every now and then, I have a deep thought. — Joel Edgerton

I would exchange all that I have written for the next thing. — William Stafford

But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole. — Rudyard Kipling

There are some people who will surprise you with their perseverance ... People who survive through the tears ... Strong spirits who prove you wrong if you make the mistake of betting against them. — Steve Maraboli

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps. — Patricia Ireland

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. — Pierre Bonnard

I DO NOT SNORE. And if I do, it's very ungallant of you to point it out. — E.L. James

The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion. — Gorgias