Crizantema Quotes & Sayings

As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake. — Natalie Portman

There is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others. — Mark Nepo

There is a place in the world for anyone in the world who says, "I'll take care of it." — Harvey MacKay

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true. — Samuel Johnson

Ego & Hype have no place in business. — Keshia Chante

I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way. — Adrian Tomine

Sometimes Moran wondered if her chief merit was her willingness to serve as a human receptacle for details. Sympathy and admiration and surprise she dutifully yet insufficiently expressed, and afterward the others moved on, forgetting her face the moment she was out of sight, or else they would not have seen her in the first place: she was one of those strangers people needed once in a while to make their lives less empty. — Yiyun Li

Try a little subtlety in self-defense; it'll help, you'll find out. — John Ashbery

People who seek to serve the community end up falsifying their work, she wrote, whether the work is writing a novel or baking bread, because they are not single- mindedly focused on the task at hand. But if you serve the work - if you perform each task to its utmost perfection - then you will experience the deep satisfaction of craftsmanship and you will end up serving the community more richly than you could have consciously planned. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. — William Safire