Jane Haddam Famous Quotes
"In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned."
Jane Haddam Quotations
"Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others."
Andrew Schneider
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."
Kahlil Gibran
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.
Edmund Burke
"The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
Albert Camus
"If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes."
Harrison Ford
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratliffe
"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."
Francis Bacon
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
Herbert Samuel