Hastings Famous Quotes
"A gentle word is never lost...It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it."
Hastings Quotations
"Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
Arthur W Radford
"Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup."
Sara Teasdale
"It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to."
Walter Linn
"In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it."
Francis Thompson
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Rita Mae Brown
"Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode"
Andrew Schneider
"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."
Plato