When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThe book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn’t have when I was young.
ALAN JACKSON -
They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like ‘grrrr!” and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like that. I thought he was coherent like the rest of us.’
BRIAN JOHNSON -
And the tree was happy.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN -
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
ARUNDHATI ROY -
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
CORNEL WEST -
I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.
ALAIN ROBERT -
I know I’m a sinner, but make me a winner!
BOB MONKHOUSE -
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
LAO TZU -
There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape …. have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow from authority ….
BENJAMIN TUCKER -
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE -
Everyone can benefit from seeing smart marketing.
LEWIS HOWES -
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
HIPPOCRATES -
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
EMILY BRONTE -
And I must learn every language to find a word that describes your beauty.
IESTYN TUDOR -
The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
ZHUGE LIANG -
Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
COLIN POWELL -
Consistency: It’s the jewel worth wearing; It’s the anchor worth weighing; It’s the thread worth weaving; It’s a battle worth winning.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL -
The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
JOHN IRVING -
Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATI -
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.
MAX LUCADO -
I can fade to darkness too. Through fear or want or need, its true. If only to escape the truth; that loneliness abides with you.
GEMMA IVERSEN -
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN -
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it’s the feel that matters.
AGYNESS DEYN