Carl Honore Quotes

Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

Carl Honore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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MarriageProblemsFightingCorruption

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy

FreedomPathWarChooseSurrender

Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.

John Piper

StupidityMeanSupernaturalDoes

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.

Sitting Bull

ChildrenFoodPeopleFeelWishLand

I live a pretty simple life.

Tom Selleck

LifeLiveSimpleSimple LifePretty

Multiculturalism isn't just a buzzword; it's not just something to debate - I am multiculturalism.

Riz Ahmed

I AmDebateSomethingJustAm

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Livy

DifficultDesperateCasesSafest

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

Drew Brees

FunnyTimeBestMeYouLook

I know that if I am playing at an all-pro level, our defense is playing well.

Chris Harris, Jr.

I AmKnowPlayingDefenseLevelOur

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Boris Pasternak

LifeBeautyValuePeopleVirtueWho

I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.

Bobby Lee

BusinessManKnowAnythingShowHow

Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

LifeArtMePaintingGentlemanYou

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

Alice Walker

ParentsAlwaysBothStorytellers

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