Xantia Activa Quotes & Sayings

...therefore all childish fear must be put away. — John Muir

Don't hate anyone," she had said. "It's quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated. — Ruth Rendell

Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure. — John Jay Hooker

Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked. — Joseph Sobran

The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans. — Beatrix Of The Netherlands

The friction began at this first meeting. O'Neill was not initially impressed with Reagan and said to him, "You've been a governor of a state, but a governor plays in the minor leagues. You're in the big leagues now." (O'Neill had said the same thing to Jimmy Carter four years before.) Reagan replied, "Oh, you know, no problem there." Despite the genial response, O'Neill's comment represented the very kind of Washington haughtiness that set Reagan's teeth on edge. Aides to the president-elect were incensed. — Steven F. Hayward

He would stand backstage and berate himself if he felt he didn't do a good job. It was almost like he couldn't hear how loud everyone was laughing. — Amy Poehler

Everything looks worse in black and white. — Paul Simon

Stuck in traffic is not an excuse. It's a sign of bad planning — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios. — Dan Jenkins

Part of liberation is being free to do your own thing and letting everyone else be free to do theirs. — Christa Dickson

No Creator could, after all, ever be found in a universe where the Creator does not even know He is the Creator. Such would be the perfect deception, the ultimate camouflage, ensuring there is nothing - ever - to accuse of injustice, and if there is nothing to accuse then there is nothing to rebel against. — John Zande

Long ago, I stopped buying- let alone reading, books that talk about organizational success but fail to emphasize the importance of TRUST — Assegid Habtewold