1 Year Old Birthday Invitation Quotes & Sayings

The idols of modern culture have had a profound influence on the shape of our work today. In traditional societies people found their meaning and sense of value by submitting their interests and sacrificing their desires to serve higher causes like God, family, and other people. In modern societies there is often no higher cause than individual interests and desires. This shift powerfully changed the role of work in people's lives - it now became the way we defined ourselves. Traditional cultures tended to see people's place on the social ladder as assigned by nature or convention, each family having its "proper place." That view had put too little stock in the role of individual talent, ambition, and hard work for determining the outcome of one's life. But modern society responded by putting too much stock in the autonomous person. — Timothy Keller

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd. — James Nesbitt

For my life, I need to make my own choices. — Kangana Ranaut

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert. — June Allyson

I married beneath me. All women do. — Nancy Astor

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual. — James St. James

Am as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep. They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm. — Ernest Hemingway,

If you have a tendency to find yourself in MacGyveresque situations, go ahead and choose a synthetic rope to craft with. I don't want you cursing my name as you hang from a cliff by your swiftly fraying Monkey's Fist necklace. — Maura Madden

Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise. — Gregg Easterbrook

Anyone who's ever run a business knows that hiring more people is a capitalist's course of last resort, something we do only when increasing customer demand requires it. In this sense, calling ourselves job creators isn't just inaccurate, it's disingenuous'. — Linsey McGoey

I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice. — Paolo Bacigalupi

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause. — Aristotle.

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful. — Michael Morpurgo

Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson) — Mort W. Lumsden

The truth to reconcile these truths he found in the experience of men, which the men of his generation must have realized far beyond others, that pain and error have their purpose and their use: they are steps of the ladder of knowledge: God, whose law it is that he who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despite, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. A great and lonely thinker. Only — Edith Hamilton