Sin Quotes - Page 45

As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed.

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without this hex upon our heads, we would never have withdrawn as far as we have from the natural—so far and for such a time that it is a relief to say what we have been trying with our all not to say: We have long since been denizens of the natural world. Everywhere around us are natural habitats, but within us is the shiver of startling and dreadful things. Simply put: We are not from here. If we vanished tomorrow, no organism on this planet would miss us. Nothing in nature needs us.

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.

what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.

I miss. I miss. I miss. I make.

Get the best people and train them well.

A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep – a fundamental appreciation of mythology. Stories create the emotional context people need to locate themselves in a larger experience.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

Everyone lives by selling something.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.