To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
GILBERT RYLEYale’s greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, “Getting older beats the alternative.” Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don’t know what he would say. He’s completely dead.
LESLIE MANN -
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTON -
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
KABIR -
I looked at the mirror long enough today. Only to meet ‘you’ that was still left in me.
KANIKA CHUGH -
This piece is neither an endorsement nor an indictment of any leader, it’s just an open question!
WILL SMITH -
If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMES -
A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
JAY SHETTY -
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
WOODROW WILSON -
I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it’s often the same message: They hope it’s my last.
AL FORMAN -
She wanted someone that could swim to the depths of her ocean and not drown in the intensity of her soul.
MILA ALEXANDROVNA -
When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
TOM PETTY -
Few people love with the violence they hate.
NORM MACDONALD -
We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.
HOWARD SCHULTZ -
I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up.
JOHN BUNYAN -
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
INDIRA GANDHI