"You're in charge but don't touch the controls."

“Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.”

“Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.”

“My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.”

Source : Robert Southwell, Henry Constable, William Drummond (1906). “Robert Southwell: Selected Poems; Henry Constable: Pastorals and Sonnets; William Drummond: Songs, Sonnets, Etc”

“Change management is kind of a weird concept to me. We can' t control events any more than we can control the weather. But we control how we deal with it and we can control the opportunities that these moments of change create.”

“Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.”

Source : "Google isn't making us dumb - or smart. That's the problem" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2009.

“The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.”

Source : Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 23: 191 (1912)

“It was a terrible psychic blow... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his son where Duke Snider used to hit one? Point out Apartment 5Q?”

“As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them.”