Chatelaine Designs Quotes & Sayings

The phrase 'work/life balance' encapsulates a depressing outlook. — Tom Hodgkinson

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity. In no other way can we account for the venerable air that is already gathering around American annals. When the mind reverts to the earliest days of colonial history, the period seems remote and obscure, the thousand changes that thicken along the links of recollections, throwing back the origin of the nation to a day so distant as seemingly to reach the mists of time; and yet four lives of ordinary duration would suffice to transmit, from mouth to mouth, in the form of tradition, all that civilized man has achieved within the limits of the republic ... Thus, what seems venerable by an accumulation of changes is reduced to familiarity when we come seriously to consider it solely in connection with time. — James Fenimore Cooper

My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help. — Meryl Streep

You have the right to flirt with and kiss and proclaim your love for whoever you want to. Which is good, because you do. All the time." Thorne — Marissa Meyer

Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!' 'I haven't the least idea what you're talking — Lewis Carroll

Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process. — Matt Taibbi

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion. — Frank Herbert

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

We're all fascinated with corruption, the more glamorous the better. — Rick Owens

Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense. — Thornton Wilder

I am trying to prioritize and keep everything in balance, which for me is not easy. — Gordon Gee

Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain. — Brendan Iribe

The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come. — Wallace D. Wattles