Washingtonian Magazine Quotes & Sayings

Hardness," I was learning, was the supreme virtue among recon Marines. The greatest compliment one could pay to another was to say he was hard. Hardness wasn't toughness, nor was it courage, although both were part of it. Hardness was the ability to face an overwhelming situation with aplomb, smile calmly at it, and then triumph through sheer professional pride. — Nathaniel Fick

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. — James Allen

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about. — Adrienne Bailon

The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue. — Freeman Dyson

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. — Dalai Lama XIV

Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do. — Michael Ende

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way. — George Bernard Shaw

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer. — Origen

In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's great novel The Brothers Karamazov, there is a scene in which two people are talking about suffering. Ivan Karamazov is talking about there being any possibility that we can make sense of suffering, and here's what he says: "I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened."11 — Timothy Keller

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained. — Philip K. Dick

I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it. — Scoot McNairy