Maybanke Anderson Quotes & Sayings

I'll read to you," Elizabeth said. "Any preferences?" "Evelyn Waugh." "Really? How strange." "That's what Konrad said. He said Waugh is for readers who know the English and understand what's being satirised. And I told him that maybe the books are better when you don't know it's satire and just think it's comedy." Elizabeth considered this. "You're probably right. I find him much too cruel. And almost unbearably sad." Hiroko's — Kamila Shamsie

To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families. — Confucius

Squires thought her need for alone time was a sign of depression. In the end, it was a lack of solitude that triggered her descent into depression. Like Squires, many introverts receive the wrong message about solitude.

Our extroverted culture makes introverts feel despicable for wanting to be alone. Like thieves snatching something that doesn't belong to them, we have to "steal" a moment of solitude. If only introverts could see that we have a right to our alone time. We have a right to enjoy it too. — Michaela Chung

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place. — Elon Musk

Your life here on earth is but a means of winning the reward of life everlasting. — Cora Evans

I never yell or scream. I mean, definitely not at work. I never yell at anyone I work with. — Dasha Zhukova

Never abandon your dreams. Follow the signs. — Paulo Coelho

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Every man has the face they deserve at fifty — George Orwell