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writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
umpires titles
There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title. Al Barlick
umpires vote fame
Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.
umpires guarantees benefits
I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed. Chris Christie
umpires judging said
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. Brendan Behan
umpires california san-francisco
Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884. Calamity Jane
umpires
The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge. Doug Harvey
umpires possibility exciting
You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present. Charles Olson
umpires giving arbitrage
What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank. Bill Janklow
umpires mckinley shots
Why, they shot the wrong McKinley! Dizzy Dean
justice nephew speech
For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis
justice seek
We have no alternative now but to seek justice in the courts. Chris Young
justice system team
When, exactly, did the American justice system become a competitive team sport? Robert Davis
justice freedom-of-speech liberty
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice. Alan Lomax
justice humanity age
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. Charles Sumner
justice feelings humanity
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity. Charles Caleb Colton
justice guarantees sentiments
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice. Susan B. Anthony
justice justice-denied denied
Justice deferred is justice denied. Diane Watson
justice prejudice natural
Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education. David Ruggles