Quotes of: Misery-loves-company Keyword

A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to have it.

Stan Slap

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

Barbara Boxer

I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got som...

Boyd Holbrook

The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that ...

Carmelo Anthony

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents...

Anne M. Mulcahy

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. I didn't come here because I wanted to be a colonist. I came because I've spent my whole...

Ender's Game

I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in the world, because to share our story we must first accept it. We must own it...

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers ...

High Fidelity

Jobs described Mike Markkula's maxim that a good company must "impute"- it must convey its values and importance in everything it does, from packaging to marketing. Johnson loved it. It definitely applied to a company's stores. " The store will becom...

Steve Jobs

According to old frineds who grew up with Stanley Ann Dunham, she became a serious student of Communist and Marxist theories back in high school. One profile even named a few of her radical teachers and administrators at Mercer High, which Dunham att...

The Secret Life of Barack Hussein Obama

Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

Clockwork Prince

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

Five Quarters of the Orange

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.

Forbidden

dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths

A Good and Happy Child

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

A Happy Death

What came first--the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music?

High Fidelity

If your comfort zone is misery, it's time to get uncomfortable.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

From one small spark a bushfire grows. Sellers of misery are our foes. Merging ruthlessly tongues of flame. Point your finger at those to blame.

Bushfire

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

John Ruskin

[...] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag