Downshift Blue Quotes & Sayings

The West in the voice of her thundering cannon had said at the door of Japan, Let there be a nation - and there was a Nation. And now that it has come into existence, why do you not feel in your heart of hearts a pure feeling of gladness and say that it is good? Why is it that I saw in an English paper an expression of bitterness at Japan's boasting of her superiority of civilization - the thing that the British, along with other nations, has been carrying on for ages without blushing? Because the idealism of selfishness must keep itself drunk with a continual dose of self-laudation. But the same vices which seem so natural and innocuous in its own life make it surprised and angry at their unpleasantness when seen in other nations. — Rabindranath Tagore

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions. — John D. Rockefeller

There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public. — William Eggleston

I've had cartons of milk that have lasted longer than most of my relationships. — Jodi Picoult

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus. — Jim Lovell

As a leader, people push you. They really want to keep pushing you until you get aggressive. Then they say, "Oh, see, it doesn't work." — Sakyong Mipham

Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers? — George Steinbrenner

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories. — Lord Acton

A shared history is valuable but maybe those two weren't right for each other and they know it — Adele Parks