the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

We want to deal with this up front, ... The goal is to be able to frame the size of the matter. These are historical financials from prior management; it has nothing to do with the current business. We look forward to getting this behind us.

Stephen Richards

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

William Hazlitt

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

George Bernard Shaw

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

William Beebe

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Billy Graham

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

Robert Southwell

The illuminable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.

Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, HeroW

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

James Russell Lowell

To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival.

Stephen Richards