John Ortberg Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness. – John Ortberg Aimlessness Quotes Fruitful Quotes Grit Quotes Lives Quotes Separates Quotes Time Quotes No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing. Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It’s the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
Emory Cohen The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn’t from New York was coming from Russia. – Emory Cohen
Rosamund Pike As a woman, you feel that you shouldn’t want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn’t it? – Rosamund Pike
Fred Willard I had just done a movie called ‘How to Beat the High Cost of Living,’ and it didn’t get a good review. And the same people sent me the script for ‘Airplane!’ for the Robert Hays part. I read it, and there were a lot of plays on words, and I said, ‘I don’t like this kind of comedy.’ – Fred Willard
BusinessFinanceHillary ClintonSpaceTrust In almost every profession – whether it’s law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business – people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. – Hillary Clinton
John le Carre Remember Graham Green’s dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. – John le Carre
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