Today Quotes
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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.Ralph Nader
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06-21-05
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at.Lord Byron
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats