funny leadership quotes

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity. ~Carl Sagan



Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. ~Mark Twain



If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown



Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. ~William Shakespeare



The problem is that when you get it, you're too damned old to do anything about it. ~Jimmy Connors, on experience



I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ~Colette



Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. ~Terri Guillemets



To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. ~George Kneller



I was called "Rembrandt" Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. ~Bob Hope



What you call a hero, I call just doing my job. ~Author Unknown



Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ~Thomas de Quincey



Everybody's 12 years old in an apple orchard. ~Rachael Ray, Rachael Ray Show, while making autumn stew, original airdate 11 October 2007



Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ~Lincoln Steffens



I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed. ~Nancie J. Carmody



If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ~H.L. Mencken



If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. ~Henry David Thoreau



He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. ~Willa Cather



Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. ~Thomas A. Edison



It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly