Mastretta 2020 Quotes & Sayings

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty. He becomes impatient and then gives vent to anger and begins to do unworthy things; he jumps from action to action never remaining faithful to any. He who broods over results is like a man given to objects of senses; he is ever distracted, he says goodbye to all scruples, everything is right in his estimation and he therefore resorts to means fair and foul to attain — Mahatma Gandhi

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. — Samuel Johnson

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States. — Paul Cellucci

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places. — Caryl Rivers

Only a few pages into "The Technologists" and Matthew Pearl already has written a gem about Boston:
"Then would come the view of the stretches of docks and piers ... then beyond that the State House's gold dome capping the horizon - the glittering cranium of the world's smartest city. — Matthew Pearl