Medici The Magnificent Quotes & Sayings

She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued. — Virginia Woolf

People talk of peace, "We should have peace" - how can you have peace? It's not possible, is an impossible situation. You see we think by thinking, by organizing, by manipulating, we'll have peace. You cannot. You cannot have peace that way. How will you have peace? When the peace is established on your attention. When your attention is peaceful, when we are absolutely without any thoughts, then the peace resides. — Nirmala Srivastava

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there. — Lev Grossman

It's not so easy writing about nothing. — Patti Smith

When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do. — Marty Rubin

None of us are as sophisticated in these matters as you think. You know I always feel, with every new person, as if I am starting anew. These things are instinctive. What you need to learn is to lay aside your inhibitions, to go back to your childhood when you played marbles or whatever with boys and never thought anything of it. — Azar Nafisi

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship. — Henry A. Kissinger

We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. — Sterling W. Sill

Post-military service can be a period of anxiety and uncertainty. So many men and women return and ask themselves: what now? The Labor Department is here to help answer that question with an array of programs designed to clear pathways into the middle class. — Thomas Perez