Ristet Br D Quotes & Sayings

The novel had reached its apogee with the marriage plot and had never recovered from its disappearance. In the days when success in life had depended on marriage, and marriage had depended on money, novelists had had a subject to write about. The great epics sang of war, the novel of marriage. Sexual equality, good for women, had been bad for the novel. And divorce had undone it completely. What would it matter whom Emma married if she could file for separation later? How would Isabel Archer's marriage to Gilbert Osmond have been affected by the existence of a prenup? As far as Saunders was concerned, marriage didn't mean much anymore, and neither did the novel. Where could you find the marriage plot nowadays? You couldn't. You had to read historical fiction. You had to read non-Western novels involving traditional societies. Afghani novels, Indian novels. You had to go, literarily speaking, back in time. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Why worship a flag or a God, when we can worship that which is best in us: our will to be great. — Andrew Ryan

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. — Francis Quarles

When you empower others to be great, you become a great leader. — Debasish Mridha

Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design ... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction. — Douglas Engelbart

You can explain a lot of things to a man. His own death is not one of them. — Brian Staveley

Christmas is everything that God would do, and nothing that we would imagine Him doing. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

When it is fairly quiet we can hear the transports behind the enemy lines rolling ceaselessly until dawn. Kat says that they do not go back but are bringing up troops - troops, munitions, and guns. — Erich Maria Remarque

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball. — Nelson Rodrigues