Retrospectively Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life
the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through its various page-proof passes
ranks among the most unnerving of my young life. It has not felt good, or freeing. It has felt nerve-shreddingly disquieting. Publication simply allows one that much more to worry about. This cannot be said to aspiring writers often or sternly enough. Whatever they carry within themselves they believe publication cures will not, I can all but guarantee, be cured. You just wind up with new diseases. — Tom Bissell

Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives. — Alexandra Katehakis

Where would you rather be tomorrow - on Mars or in the Kingdom of Heaven? — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. — Anthony Eden

During the 1920s the market for automobiles changed slowly and subtly. Henry Ford's slogan for the Model T - "It takes you there and brings you back" - epitomized the original attraction of the car as a mode of basic transportation. In 1921, more than half of all cars sold in the United States were Fords. But — Andrew S. Grove

No failure you have need to fear, Except to fail to do your best - What have you done, what can you do? That is the question, that the test. — Various

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. — Virginia Woolf

(Until the end of their lives, these men and women would tell stories about the summer they followed Lyndon Johnson and his Flying Windmill around Texas; as Oliver Knight of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram would write about one trip, "That mad dash from Navasota to Conroe in which I dodged stumps at 70 MPH just to keep up with that contraption will ever be green in my memory.") At the landing site, there would be the brief respite — Robert A. Caro

Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine , guard it well. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ADVENTURE CAPITALISTS — William Gibson

The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable ... The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this treaty had to be unclear. It is a success. — Karel De Gucht

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions. — Robert Kiyosaki

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it — Lawrence M. Krauss