"Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners"

-- Adam Gopnik

#Water Quotes #Dinner Quotes #Prisoner Quotes

“People don't want to be sold! People want to buy!”
“But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it's like glass -- serene and calm -- and other times it's raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful.”

Source : Bill McCartney (1995). “From Ashes to Glory”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated
“When leaders are willing to talk through their own decision-making process, making visible that values are an important consideration, this sends a powerful signal to employees.”
“I was what you are, you will be what I am.”
“Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.”
“I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.47, The Overlook Press
“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”

Source : David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
“What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Louis Judd". "Cat People", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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