In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.
Mean Quotes That Will Leave You Speechless - page 170
ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.
Phyllis Schlafly
Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions.
Susanna Tamaro
The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.
Lu Xun
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.
Etty Hillesum
Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.
George S. Clason
Success means being satisfied with what you do every day. It's being proud of the better person you are becoming.
Dwyane Wade
Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength
Barbara Katz Rothman
I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.
Allan Holdsworth
Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.
Steven Pinker
Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!
Marie Corelli
Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the father of innovation.
Brian Solis
I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.
I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
Erykah Badu
She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.
Lauren DeStefano
I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.
Sheryl Sandberg
For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
Georg Simmel
