Chapter 11 Quotes

“Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Nothing lasts,'" said Nezha, at the same time that Kitay said, "'The world doesn't exist.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone, even if they don't know it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“The eyes of another can be a mirror more effective than water. If you will look at me, I can see my reflection in yours.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Among all the sutras I have expounded,
Lotus Sutra is the first and foremost!
If you are able to uphold the Lotus Sutra,
it means you are able to uphold the body of a Buddha!”

(LS 11: 3.35)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 11, Section 3, Paragraph 35”
― Gautama Buddha, The Lotus Sutra

“When a company bets on future sales to pay off existing debts, it's in a risky situation. That's a gamble that often results in bankruptcy.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. Well, here I am tonight, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with ‘virgin crants and maiden strewments.’ I never liked garlic before, but tonight it is delightful!...”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Ha! And I bet you didn’t even see it coming!”
– Dread Emperor Traitorous the First”
― ErraticErrata, So You Want to Be a Villain?

“Of course. I should have realized. You’re so brave, Eureka. How do you handle it?”

“I don’t handle it, that’s how.”
― Lauren Kate, Teardrop

“It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding it.”
― Todd Strasser

“True corporate wholeness is achieved when an organization's spirit, value creation, and operational structure are fully aligned. A resilient enterprise constantly harmonizes these internal dimensions to withstand external turbulence.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith, Be Made Whole: Bringing sick companies back to health, dead ones back to life, or preventing decline in the first place by using R6R

“Corporate self-crucifixion is the deliberate dismantling of outdated, unviable practices to allow a healthier model to emerge. Rebirth requires the courage to surrender what no longer serves value creation. And this is what the R6R Change Management Framework is all about.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith, Be Made Whole: Bringing sick companies back to health, dead ones back to life, or preventing decline in the first place by using R6R

“Roger’s face changed. It changed in a moment from eagerness to something that was recognizably close to despair.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“He gave her a discreet smile; it was a smile, she noticed, that did not touch his cold pale eyes.”
― Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

“Coolly and calmly she appraised what she saw. A nervous good-looking man of thirty-odd who was badly frightened—a man nearly at the end of his tether—a man who had, presumably, come here full of high hopes and had been reduced—to this.”
― Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

“You start out upset about something, confront her on it, and somehow by the end of the argument you're the one apologizing.

An angry male can be intimidating, especially when he's stronger, as men generally are even when it comes to immortals. I think women have had to develop the intelligence to deal with our anger. So, while we stomp around roaring liek wounded lions, they use their heads as a sort of defense.”
― Lynsay Sands, Born to Bite

“The nurturing capacity of the R6R Resilience Change Management framework allows it to successfully house and contextualize legacy business methodologies rather than competing against them.”
― Dr. Hendrith Vanlon Smith, Be Made Whole: Bringing sick companies back to health, dead ones back to life, or preventing decline in the first place by using R6R