Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathryn Minshew

If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.

Katherine Paterson

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

Matt Bomer

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

Neal A. Maxwell

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

Mikhail Lermontov

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

Mikhail Bakunin

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

Margot Asquith

All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light ...

Mark Hoppus

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

William Joyce

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

Vladimir Nabokov

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Paul Auster

I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.

Natalie Babbitt

People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

Ken Wilber

Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth, and we are introduced to the mysteries of the deep, the call of the within, the infinite radiance of a splendor that time and space forgot

Krista Tippett

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space,

Kevin Pollak

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

Mark Twain

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.