Venson Electric Private Quotes & Sayings

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops. — Confucius

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. — Samuel Johnson

She is a wonderful nerd, and he hopes this won't change. — Tom Rachman

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do. — Barack Obama

I just need to make sure I don't get in my own way of a truthful and organic moment. Regardless of the research involved, at the end of the day, I have to show up, breathe, and listen. — Jonathan Keltz

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture. — David Elliott

You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the light is, know what it will do to them. And come anyway. — Glen Hirshberg

Don't make excuses. They're pointless. — Shannon A. Thompson

In most good stories it is the character's personalty that creates the action of the story. — Flannery O'Connor

So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create that class and decide benefits on that basis when they themselves have no interest in the actual institution of marriage as married? — Sonia Sotomayor

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever. — Jean Cocteau

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. — Georg Brandes