Havemeyer Trophy Quotes & Sayings

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means 'two,' and the word zweifel, which means 'doubt' - suggesting that two of anything brings the automatic possibility of uncertainty to our lives. Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order. In a world of such abundant possibility, many of us simply go limp from indecision. Or we derail our life's journey again and again, backing up to try the doors we neglected on the first round, desperate to get it right this time. Or we become compulsive comparers - always measuring our lives against some other person's life, secretly wondering if we should have taken her path instead. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm old to be raising a child. And she ... She obeys me, but only because she wants to."
"It's the only justification for obedience," Ged observed. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton. — Malala Yousafzai

I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that. — Hugh Laurie

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5. — James Heckman

Lifetime corporate employment is dead; we're all free agents now, managing our own careers across multiple jobs and companies. And because today's primary currency is information, a wide-reaching network is one of the surest ways to become and remain thought leaders of our respective fields. — Keith Ferrazzi

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. — Arthur Freed

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey. — Henri Nouwen

Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes. — Judith Martin

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. — Lawrence Summers