David K. E. Bruce Quotes
The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.
David K. E. Bruce
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
Gary Hamel
Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
Jacky Ickx
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble
In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
Barry Ritholtz
Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
Zig Ziglar
Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
Tasha Smith
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
Edgardo Osorio
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Rachel Weisz
I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
Natalie Maines
I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
Vera Wang
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu
God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.
Victoria Osteen
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
Dana Carvey
I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.'
Max Schmeling
More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?
Thomas Sowell
The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.
David K. E. Bruce
