Vlasits Barbara Quotes & Sayings

What we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn. — Stephen R. Covey

The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity. — Tacitus

He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women. — Christopher Paolini

I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden. — Mahatma Gandhi

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation. — Denzel Washington

My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold. — Cammi Granato

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none. — E.F. Schumacher

There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short. — Terry Pratchett

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights. — Jane Kenyon

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain. — Yvon Chouinard

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain. — Andrew O'Hagan

In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make. — Larry Ellison

Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would be forever find their illusion destroyed abruptly, and they, also, respond to the newly revealed reality by selling or trying to sell. And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries: the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang. — John Kenneth Galbraith