You can do everything right and still fail, not just once, but overall in life. Luck is more important than we acknowledge.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach)
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
—Rachel Carson (American Biologist)
Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
—Aubrey Thomas de Vere (Irish Poet)
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
—Eleonora Duse (Italian Actress)
Night is a world lit by itself.
—Antonio Porchia (Italian Poet)
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
—Donald Rumsfeld (American Government Official)
Many of us are more capable than some of us … but none of us is as capable as all of us!.
—Tom Wilson (American Cartoonist)
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
—Persian Proverb
Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
—Jonathan Safran Foer (American Novelist)
To agree to keep a secret is to assume a burden.
—Sam Harris (American Neuroscientist, Atheist, Author)
Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Monk, Mystic)
When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
—William Blake (English Poet)
There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.
—William Jenkyn (English Clergyman)
What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.
—Walter Kaufmann (German-American Philosopher)
Commerce has made all winds her messengers; all climes her tributaries; all people her servants.
—Tryon Edwards (American Theologian)
If you don’t believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don’t think it’s enough.
—Harold Macmillan (British Head of State)