Urnings Quotes & Sayings

Profitably selling to the bottom of the pyramid is difficult, but it can be done. It requires companies to focus on business fundamentals and start their ventures with a rigorous understanding of two key challenges in low-income markets: changing consumers' behavior and changing the way products are made and delivered. — Anonymous

I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll have faced his own placid death and slipped without a sound inside himself. Mostly, I imagine I'll crouch there at the door, fall onto him, and cry hard into the stench of his fur. I'll wait for him to wake up, but he won't. I'll bury him. I'll carry him outside, feeling his warmth turn to cold as the horizon frays and falls down in my backyard. For now, though, he's okay. I can see him breathing. He just smells like he's dead. — Markus Zusak

I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way. — Alexander Hanson

That time of day when the sun hasn't come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It's an elusive warmth, like a subtle promise whispered in your ear and you can go on with your day knowing you've been given another chance to get it right. — Cassia Leo

True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving. — Swami Satchidananda

Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind. — Kofi Annan

Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change — John Assaraf

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. — George Bancroft

Making fun of guys to get them to perform and prove themselves, that's always going to exist. But we have to equally celebrate them and empower them. — Michael Gurian

In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?' — D. A. Carson

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I. — E. M. Forster

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. — Ray Stannard Baker

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. — Paula Abdul

Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals? — Ben Shapiro

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people. — Jim Rohn

It would be a mistake to suppose that all Urnings must be woman-haters. Quite the contrary. They are not seldom the faithfulest friends, the truest allies, and most convinced defenders of women. — Otto De Joux