“When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, "My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.” ThinkingFirstsLeftAttitudeCareersOfficeUniversityDearBoardsInterviewsPrivate Sector Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.” IfsShouldLittlesEndsLightFallLeftSpeakMissingObjectsConversationBallsDearSpheresPlatesRainbowClayBangsPipeGlitterDriftingJugglingDrifting Off Author:Evelyn Waugh
“Several years ago my dear wife went to the hospital. She left a note behind for the children: "Dear children, do not let Daddy touch the microwave" - followed by a comma, "or the stove, or the dishwasher, or the dryer." I'm embarrassed to add any more to that list.” YearsChildrenLeftBehindsWifeYears AgoAddNotesDearListsHospitalsEmbarrassedDaddyStovesMicrowavesDishwashersDryers Author:Thomas S. Monson
“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!” BookStoriesHandsLightEyeAgeLeftPleasureObjectsPleaseFameGloryConsciousDearBrilliantWitTreasureGoldenRejoiceVolumeSageDeliciousDeceivedBeamRaptureMusings Author:Isaac D'Israeli
“Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.” IfsKnowsLoveArtLeftKnow HowTreeFlowerWorshipBirdDearCaughtNeglectedForgetfulnessCaged Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.” FirstsMayMeanDoeLeftPayAcceptanceCitizensDearToleranceCelebrateCelebrationTotalitarianismSteep Author:Dennis Prager
“... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers.” ShouldFeelingsEarthBeautifulLeftNaturalWords Of WisdomInstinctDearAffectionProductionsWeedAlmightySweetestNew Feelings Book:Works: ¬The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ; 2 Source: Works: ¬The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ; 2
“We are all just here for a time - whether in this building or even on this earth. But the values we hold dear will live on long after we have left this stage. Our responsibility, while we are here, is to breathe life into them; to imbue them with the strength of our convictions and the weight of our efforts.” LongEarthValuesLeftEffortResponsibilityStageBuildingWeightDearConvictionBreathe Author:Loretta Lynch