"We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment."

-- Richard J. Daley

#Funny Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Platitudes Quotes

“To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.”

Source : Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.26, Harvard University Press
“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

Source : Villette ch. 36 (1853)
“I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.”

Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.316, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.”

Source : Jill Shalvis, Elle Kennedy (2015). “Time Out & Body Check”, p.9, Harlequin
“Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.”
“I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.”
“Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.”
“At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.”

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