"There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable."

-- William Penn

#Leadership Quotes #Men Quotes #Way Quotes

“Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four oâ€™clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isnâ€™t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: â€˜get in a taxi nowâ€™ or â€˜I need to see you, we need to talkâ€™. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel â€“ independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.”

Source : David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.106, Hachette UK
“Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.”
“I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.”
“When the image is new, the world is new.”
“Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.”
“Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?" Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.”
“Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.”
“It's true. We're really working hard to make Incline Lake a reality, but that doesn't mean that we're not focused on other projects to improve the basin - sometimes big projects.”

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