Category: writer
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I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen
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It is only from the people I’ve had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of ‘Moulin Rouge,’ for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn’t pretend to know all the answers – quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.
Simon Sinek
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question.
Albert Camus
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I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.
Erma Bombeck
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I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.
Alice Walker
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus
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Become a fixer, not just a fixture.
Anthony J. D’Angelo