Wakiwaki Quotes & Sayings

Be attentive, be intelligent, be responsible, be loving, and if necessary, change. — Bernard Lonergan

But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands, because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry. — Christina Hoff Sommers

There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not fuck or shit. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only and fast. These words gets in the way of healthy communication — Jason Fried

I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, 'Oh, I want to play with my trucks.' They think it's not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys. — Madeline Carroll

When your soul and mine
have left our bodies and we are
burried alongside each other,
a Potter may one day mould
the dust of both of us
into the same clay. — Omar Khayyam

How can we stop going faster while our ability to see further ahead is decreasing? — Peter M. Senge

No clear line separates healing from upgrading. Medicine almost always begins by saving people from falling below the norm, but the same tools and know-how can then be used to surpass the norm. — Yuval Noah Harari

It was like some great big spring was tugging at him - and maybe,perhaps sooner rather than later, a boy has to decide what kind of man he is going to be. Is he going to be a player,or a playing piece ... ? — Terry Pratchett

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. — Winston Churchill

I'll be marching through the morning,
Marching through the night,
Moving 'cross the borders
Of My Secret Life. — Leonard Cohen

doing what you are good at will only make you good; — James C. Collins

If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership. — Pearl Zhu

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye. — Chelsea Clinton