Trousselier Quotes & Sayings

24 Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife. — Anonymous

Instead of going back and looking at the question, people tinker with the solution, trying to make it fit."-Claude Legrande ... "The consequences of failing to do that [in our personal lives] are the same as those facing businesses - even more dire, perhaps, because what's being squandered isn't just the potential for profits. It's the potential for happiness. We miss opportunities to innovate and to make positive changes in our lives when we aren't willing to question ourselves. — Amanda Lang

I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent. — Adele

(I had a need in winter. We all did, oh.) — Timothy Donnelly

The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future. — Luther Burbank

Maybe not today. Or tomorrow. But someday," she said. "I'm not going to waste my life longing for the guy-that-almost-was. I'm going to move on and find the guy-to-be. — Nicole Williams

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too. — Evan Bayh

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now? — Vladimir Putin

If Christians do not develop their own tools of analysis , then when issues come up that they want to understand, they'll reach over and borrow someone else's tools- whatever concepts are generally accepted in their general field or in the culture at large.
But when they do that, Os Guiness writes, they don't realize that "They are borrowing not an isolated tool, but a whole philosophical toolbox laden with tools which have their own particular bias to every problem." They may even end up absorbing an entire set of alien principles without even realizing it.
In other words, not only do we fail to be salt and light to a lost culture, but we ourselves may end up being shaped by our culture. — Nancy Pearcey

This perplexing consequence came fully to light as soon as equality was no longer seen in terms of an omnipotent being like God or an unavoidable common destiny like death. Whenever equality becomes a mundane fact in itself, without any gauge by which it may be measured or explained, then there is one chance in a hundred that it will be recognized simply as a working principle of a political organization in which otherwise unequal people have equal rights; there are ninety-nine chances that it will be mistaken for an innate quality of every individual, who is "normal" if he is like everybody else and "abnormal" if he happens to be different. This perversion of equality from a political into a social concept is all the more dangerous when a society leaves but little space for special groups and individuals, for then their differences become all the more conspicuous. — Hannah Arendt

[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Love means the courage to expose yourself to the potential pains of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust. — Renita J. Weems