No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

Brit Hume

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Sophocles

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Charles Spurgeon

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Source Unknown

They had their cynical code worked out. The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.

George Orwell

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Beverly Cleary

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Carl Sandburg

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Jack Kuehler

A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.

Mayor Jimmy Walker

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

Simon Raven

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Howard Nemerov