quotes about Human Resources

“Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.”

“love has a very dulling effect on the brain”

“Boxing's given me the chance to travel around the world and open the door and the world is much brighter.”

“Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.”

“Sinners in their natural state lie dead, lifeless, and moveless; they can no more believe in Christ, nor repent, than a dead man can speak or walk: but, in virtue of the promise, the Spirit of life from Christ Jesus, at the time appointed, enters into the dead soul, and quickens it; so that it is no more morally dead, but alive, having new spiritual powers put into it, that were lost by Adam's fall.”

Source : Thomas Boston (1767). “A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: Wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it; its parts ... and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered. Together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, and the way of instating sinners therein ...”, p.151

“Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.”

“His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his fluid gestures were those of a trained killer.”

“Race differences show up early in life.”

Source : J. Philippe Rushton (2000). “Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective”

“I try to execute pitches and get guys out.”

“The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.”

Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2013). “American Elsewhere”, p.359, Hachette UK