Delivering Quotes

• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Character, Destiny

  FaceBook post by Tony Hsieh from Feb 12, 2014

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• Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Promise, American Football

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• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

  John Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

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• Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fear, Real, Grateful

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• You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

  John Powell

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

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• I really enjoy delivering life-changing news to people who really deserve it.

  Jeff Brazier

  Life Changing, People, News

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The for-profit health insurance industry is the main obstacle to delivering high quality, universal healthcare for all. It should be replaced with a single-payer system, a public program that guarantees everyone coverage.

  Kshama Sawant

  Quality, Guarantees, Healthcare

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something - love - from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Asking, Demand

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Men, Talking, Monologues

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• My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.

  Steve Martin

  Memories, Loss, Worry

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  War, Down And, Way

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could ever go into wide distribution.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  War, Hair, Soldier

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• You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Running, Moving, Oxygen

  Florence Griffith Joyner, John Hanc (1999). “Running For Dummies”, For Dummies

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• I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Caring, News, Clarity

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering. You don't have time to notice. Or are afraid to notice. And then one day you have to look. And it's true. All of your pieces fill up other people's holes. But they don't fill your own.

  Mary E. Pearson

  People, Dancing, One Day

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• They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Integrity, Artist

  Thomas Merton, M. Basil Pennington (2005). “Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for : Selected Spiritual Writings”, p.22, New City Press

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• This is sort of inflection-free acting [playing Maigret], and I really wasn't sure if I could do it - you make your mind up on whether I've succeeded or not. But yes, I found it difficult when we were shooting; it was a couple of weeks before I settled into not worrying - to finding a way of delivering those lines - so my worries of many months before I think had been justified. I found it a difficult way of being.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Couple, Thinking, Worry

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry about [Donald] Trump. But in conventional political terms, this is a cabinet that I think is going to have a very hard time delivering to the base that Trump courted in this election.

  E. J. Dionne

  Thinking, Hard Times, Worry

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

  Eric McCormack

  Couple, Laughing, Decent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  Salma Hayek

  Baby, Grandmother, Medicine

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• In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

  Woody Harrelson

  Play, Actors, Lines

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• I thought Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

  Mark Haddon

  Bills, Tricks, Remarkable

  "Finding the vital spark". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2005.

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• The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place.

  Evan Davis

  Mean, Offering, Data

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• I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

  George Carlin

  Death, Suicide, Humorous

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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