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Phrases Famous Quotes By Eileen Caddy

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be. — Eileen Caddy

Phrases Famous Quotes By James Salter

Strauss's, for instance, which begins in the heavens. The artist doesn't ascend to glory, he appears in it, he already has it and the world is prepared to recognize him. Meteoric, like a comet - those are the phrases we apply, and it's true, it is a kind of burning. It makes them highly visible, and at the same time it consumes them, and it's only afterwards, when the brilliance is gone, when their bones are lying alongside those of lesser men, that one can really judge. I mean, there are famous works, renowned in antiquity, and today absolutely forgotten: books, buildings, works of art. — James Salter

Phrases Famous Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Phrases Famous Quotes By Nicholas Nassim Taleb

It would appear to a quoting dilettante - i.e., one of those writers and scholars who fill up their texts with phrases from some dead authority - that, as phrased by Hobbes, "from like antecedents flow like consequents." Those who believe in the unconditional benefits of past experience should consider this pearl of wisdom allegedly voiced by a famous ship's captain:
"But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident ... of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort." E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS
Titanic Captain Smith's ship sank in 1912 in what became the most talked-about shipwreck in history. — Nicholas Nassim Taleb

Phrases Famous Quotes By T.C. Boyle

The hardest part is always the middle of anything because at that point, on some unconscious level, you have to figure out what it's about and why you're doing it and what it means. You don't know that in the beginning. — T.C. Boyle

Phrases Famous Quotes By Lauren Willig

embroidered Louis XV chair, legs crossed at the — Lauren Willig

Phrases Famous Quotes By Martin Luther King Jr.

There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his
essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Phrases Famous Quotes By Maria Montessori

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity. — Maria Montessori

Phrases Famous Quotes By Liev Schreiber

Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters. — Liev Schreiber

Phrases Famous Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite. — Rabindranath Tagore

Phrases Famous Quotes By Bobby Heenan

And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?' — Bobby Heenan