Alphabet Quotes

The colonel replied that he didn't care

how my men had got the job done.

He was happy that it had been accomplished.

He said that, obviously,

no matter how much or how little I knew technically,

I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days

three such days with you I could fill with more delight

than fifty common years could ever contain.

I think there is only one quality worse than

hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

Repartee is something we think of twenty

four hours too late.

For success of any mission,

it is necessary to have creative leadership.

Creative leadership is vital for government,

non governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot,

but make it hot by striking.

Hope is the thing with

feathers that perches

in the soul

and sings

the tunes without the words

and never stops at all.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old,

but of the natural.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made,

do the people in power think about the sacrifices

the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

An escalator can never break:

it can only become stairs.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

There can be no greater error than to expector calculate,

upon real favors from nation to nation.

It is an illusion which experience must cure,

which a just pride ought to discard.

Style is about expressing your personality,

not following rules.

Some day following the example,

of the United States of America,

there will be a United States of Europe.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty,

and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new,

so we must think anew and act anew.

Wisdom is the principal thing;

therefore get wisdom.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.

You,

who have it to see,

welcome it—and forget not those who have fallen during the night.