It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTIn the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
HILLARY CLINTON -
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
SOLON -
She spent time planting flowers in her heart now they bloom as they smile.
LEON MARSH -
Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that’s your picture.
AARON SISKIND -
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
BARBARA HEPWORTH -
There is no real way to prepare for letting go, other than to just let go.
LISA ARCHER -
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
LEON TROTSKY -
I said I hope you’re fine, but what I meant was I hope you find your way back to me.
GINNIE BALE -
I painted the walls of my room with all my secret tears, filling the empty space with false hopes and fears.
ANAND THAKUR -
Life is dominated by asymmetrical actions.
LOUIS PASTEUR -
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. ‘
AHMAD IBN RUSTAH -
Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
DICK CAVETT