It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
WOODROW WILSONThe great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, ‘You don’t have to [do it] today. There’s always tomorrow.’?
A. J. JACOBS -
What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in ones duty.
BHARTRHARI -
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
YANN MARTEL -
She breathed love like air. She was Paris turned human.
MARIE-KRISTIN HOFMANN -
I will not be perfect, but accept my crazy and I will love you perfectly.
MATT SPENSER -
My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
BOBBY KNIGHT -
Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol.
BOB BLUMER -
I could learn how to press ‘Record’ on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
BARRY BONDS -
I got to know him well as Vice President to Ronald Reagan. And George rang me up and said, “Oh, Bob,” he said, “I’m having trouble with Brian [Mulroney].” He said, “He’s got a big wheat trade with Iraq, and he doesn’t want to upset that.” I said, “You leave it with me.”
BOB HAWKE -
You’ll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn’t bother me.
NOEL GALLAGHER -
I have a million dollar figure but it’s all loose change.
JOAN RIVERS -
The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
BILL NYE -
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
I’m focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I’ve either read or I plan on getting to.
NIPSEY HUSSLE -
Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.
GORDON BROWN -
I suddenly realize that I’m naked, which shouldn’t bother me since it’s the phone, but for some reason it does. “How’s it hanging?” Kyra asks and now I think I’m blushing. It’s just an expression, but jeez!
BARRY LYGA -
Our galaxies collided and still, I loved you despite the destruction.
BAILEY RAE -
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
LOUIS PASTEUR -
I’ve always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it’s never too late to transform ourselves.
DREW BARRYMORE -
The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we’re teaching – not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values – are sinking in.
BOBBY ORR -
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RAND -
Dirty pony, I can’t wait to hose you down.
LADY GAGA -
I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
BEN FELDMAN -
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
BETH HENLEY