J C Watts Famous Quotes
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
J C Watts Quotations
"I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist."
Max Lerner
"He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man."
William Shakespeare
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock."
Miguel de Cervantes
"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing."
William Butler Yeats
"Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity."
Les Claypool
"If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes."
Mickey Spillane
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens
"All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling."
H L Mencken
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Louis