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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4d65a3e | A women needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle | Nancy Bartholomew | ||
| 0bef535 | coat!" the manager repeated. "Then you won't have to pay the tax." "But I have to sign a form," my father exclaimed. "I have to declare the things I've bought and am bringing into the country." "Don't declare it; just wear it," the manager said once again. "Don't worry about the tax." My father was silent for a moment, and then he said, "Look, frankly I'm not as worried about having to pay the tax as I am about this new salesman you're trai.. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| bdb78f8 | FIRST WAVE: SELF TRUST The first wave, Self Trust, deals with the confidence we have in ourselves--in our ability to set and achieve goals, to keep commitments, to walk our talk--and also with our ability to inspire trust in others. The whole idea is to become, both to ourselves and to others, a person who is worthy of trust. The key principle underlying this wave is credibility, which comes from the Latin root credere, meaning "to believe... | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| c873e49 | The success of big business and the well-being of the world have never been more closely linked. Global issues cannot be removed from the business world because business has only one world in which to operate. Businesses cannot succeed in societies that fail. --JORMA OLLILA, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, NOKIA | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 61484d8 | It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesn't need any credit. . . . He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway. --ROBERT TOWNSEND, FORMER CEO, AVIS | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 78aa0ba | Example comes first, then relationship, then teaching, because example is seen, relationship is felt, teaching is heard. People tend not to hear until they see and feel, and that's what happened with me. I saw and I felt in my home. Then, that enabled me to hear, because of what I was seeing and feeling. Stephen M. R. Covey | Janet Bray Attwood | ||
| b94919c | By its nature, government was either small and personal, something on the level of a town hall meeting, or it was tyranny, with the few ruling the many for their own benefit, no matter how representational that government might be in theory. | William H. Keith Jr. | ||
| dee27cc | Do things with your children While they still want to do things with you | Jason King Godwise | ||
| c5c52fe | There was no such thing as pure happiness. How many years it took to learn that! Always some dark fretted thing which unbalanced the ease one had laboriously found. | Anya Seton | ||
| daceb64 | Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the preacher. | puritanism | Anya Seton | |
| 10f1ef9 | The knights were disgusted. They said that all that fiddle-faddle was well enough for saints, or might have been a thousand years ago, but the Lord Jesus would certainly be the first to command Christians to kill pagans. Rumon announced that he did not think so. | Anya Seton | ||
| 113bc06 | in that hushed hour between midnight and dawn when Morpheus' sable hands touch the rosy finger tips of Aurora and even the fairies are slumbering on their flowery couches, | Anya Seton | ||
| 7819d55 | Mistress Allen was only an ordinary provincial manor lady, bent on nothing more sinister than retrieving money of which she felt defrauded, and in the process either quarreling with or using people. | Anya Seton | ||
| 9a04213 | Miranda was shocked to hear Nicholas speak of slavery in glowing terms, as an efficient agricultural system. This wasn't the South! Yet as she surveyed her employer's strong dark profile in secret from beneath her long lashes, she was forced to conclude that the role of master suited Nicholas Van Ryn perfectly. Even when she closed her eyes, the impression of cruelty and power remained. But it was herself she saw as the darky slave, strippe.. | Anya Seton | ||
| 03eaf98 | Bir kalbin var." dedi bir ic cekisle. "Benimki soldu ve oldu." | Anya Seton | ||
| e47f4d8 | Look, bimba--In my country we have a--how you say?--a proverb. Amare, cantare, mangiare.--Loving, singing, eating--these are God's three gifts. You don' need more. | Anya Seton | ||
| 11f1998 | The new Queen was adept at fostering loyalty by hopes alone | Anya Seton | ||
| 83d0efc | I guess every disaster, every tragedy in the world, my lad, is caused by someone's selfishness and refusal to recognize the rights of others. | Anya Seton | ||
| 96aaae3 | God's will usually seemed to coincide with her father's, and against this partnership there was no hope of appeal. | Anya Seton | ||
| 4f09e59 | I]n politics, reputation is the prologue to fact... | Todd Gitlin | ||
| e79918c | HIGH STRANGENESS: 2/10. Aside from mind-control rays affecting one out of every thirty Americans, this isn't all that strange. | Monte Cook | ||
| a13d4e0 | Jake's pulse quickened when he realized that for the first time in his life, he was looking straight into the honest eyes of love. | Loree Lough | ||
| eaf72bc | So she prayed. She prayed she'd been right when she told herself something good and decent lived inside this man. Mostly, though, she prayed she hadn't made the worst mistake of her life when she allowed herself to fall in love with him. | Loree Lough | ||
| 222f979 | Because if the Texan hadn't been mistaken (or lying), and Jake had been convicted of the murder--and sentenced to hang for it--her dreams of a future with him would remain just that. And the mere thought of losing him, even for a reason like that, woke an ache inside her that she'd thought long buried, a pain as cutting and as deep as Mary's death had caused. | Loree Lough | ||
| 5bea4d4 | you've gotta take love where you can find it in this cruel world and hold on tight for as long as you can, because you never know what will steal it from you. | Loree Lough | ||
| a294502 | He'd never felt more loved or wanted than when he was with Bess. Had never felt more important or cherished than when in her arms. Was it wrong to want her on every human level? Not wrong, perhaps, but not right, either.... | Loree Lough | ||
| e132065 | The encroaching darkness that shrouded him couldn't compare to the joyless gloom that hung in his heart. | Loree Lough | ||
| 1b5b0a0 | it caused one of Douglass's most challenging psychic dilemmas. He repeatedly faced the question of how uncompromising radicalism could mix with a learned pragmatism to try to influence real power, to determine how to condemn the princes and their laws but also influence and eventually join them. | David W. Blight | ||
| 74ddf16 | You are responsible for your deeds You are responsible for you | Jason King Godwise | ||
| ab5e3f8 | Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than humanity. | David W. Blight | ||
| 5b30c28 | Our government may at some time be in the hands of a bad man. When in the hands of a good man it is all well enough. . . . We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe. | David W. Blight | ||
| 5124e0c | His "wickedly selfish" Americans loved to celebrate their "own heritage, and on this condition are content to see others crushed in our midst." | David W. Blight | ||
| b9ba6b4 | In August, Douglass righteously claimed that "everyone knows that this is the slaveholders' rebellion and nothing else." The war, he said, was the work of a "privileged class of irresponsible despots, authorized tyrants and blood-suckers, who fasten upon the Negro's flesh, and draw political power and consequence from their legalized crimes." | David W. Blight | ||
| 69f31b0 | Grafton, Massachusetts, in early 1842, while working solo, Douglass was met by mob hostility in addition to an unwelcoming clergy. So he went to a hotel and borrowed a "dinner-bell, with which in hand I passed through the principal streets," he recalled, "ringing the bell and crying out, 'Notice! Frederick Douglass, recently a slave, will lecture on American Slavery, on Grafton Common, this evening at 7 o'clock."13" | David W. Blight | ||
| f37c3f8 | I now saw, in my situation, several points of similarity with that of the oxen. They were property, so was I; they were to be broken, so was I. Covey was to break me, I was to break them; break and be broken--such is life. | David W. Blight | ||
| c9115de | Douglass played the prophetic role of the "suffering servant" with zeal. His famous statement about agitation, delivered in a speech in 1857, has stood the test of time and numerous protest ideologies: "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to" | David W. Blight | ||
| d41403d | But this is your home' 'Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho! | gender inheritence injustice | Joan Aiken | |
| afb9c09 | They said the boy had problems sitting still and quiet The wise old man said to his parents There is nothing wrong with that boy That one hundred acres would not cure | Jason King Godwise | ||
| b4c0ea1 | The greatest trick our enemy ever did Was to make us think we are our own enemy Is to make us ashamed, and hate ourselves Thinking we are our own enemy | Jason King Godwise | ||
| 13fcc04 | The first rule of war is to know when you're in one | Jason King Godwise | ||
| 4547cbf | If entering marriage ask Will I enjoy conversation with this person in old age | Jason King Godwise | ||
| e1f68a4 | Some people demand freedom of speech When they don't use freedom of thought | Jason King Godwise | ||
| 2d0a136 | In nature nothing is done without a purpose Nature does nothing useless She is the greatest economist of all There is a reason for everything | Jason King Godwise | ||
| 68b1cb9 | Get rid of all the extras If something is of no use Do not burden yourself with it Get rid of it, let go | Jason King Godwise |