Wohlford Hall Quotes & Sayings

[T]hose who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship. — Samuel Rutherford

Design - that is, utility enhanced by significance - has become an essential aptitude for personal fulfillment and professional success — Daniel H. Pink

This feels like a critical fork in my road-success lies to the left, moral integrity to the right; are they ever on the same road? — Elisabeth Robinson

True heroes are never heroes for the recognition. They do what they are supposed to do, play the hand they've been dealt. And true heroes don't seek out heroism. It's thrust upon them. — Darynda Jones

Politics
How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms! — W.B.Yeats

She would fill the world with it, with her light-her gift. She would light up the darkness, so brightly that all who were lost or wounded or broken would find their way to it, a beacon for those who still dwelled in that abyss. It would not take a monster to destroy a monster-but light, light to drive out the darkness.
She was not afraid. — Sarah J. Maas

Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist. — Bill Plympton

Even without much experience in friendships, the lonely girl and the castaway boy filled the time as two friends should. — M.P. Kozlowsky

Relations between the Facist regime and the American government were rapidly cooling. Italian newspapers did nothing to help, charging that Jews ruled the United States. They offered a list of the all-Jewish makeup of what was said to be the likely next American cabinet, headed by the President Bernard Baruch and Vice President Albert Einstein. Leon Trotsky was slated to be secretary of war; the face that he was neither American nor lived in the country was apparently no impediment. — David I. Kertzer