Quotes & Sayings About Withstanding The Test Of Time

There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity. The latter, being the concern of the philosophers and the vita contemplativa, must remain outside our present considerations. But the former is testified to by the current classification of striving for immortality with the private vice of vanity. Under modern conditions, it is indeed so unlikely that anybody should earnestly aspire to an earthly immortality that we probably are justified in thinking it is nothing but vanity. — Hannah Arendt

The idea of having a steady job is appealing. — Robin Williams

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness — Alan Dean Foster

The people told me, however, that the big ear was not only a man, but a great man, a genius. But I never believed in the people when they spake of great men - and I hold to my belief that it was a reversed cripple, who had too little of everything, and too much of one thing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there — George Harrison

When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma. — Brian K. Vaughan

Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt. — Euripides

France was the first country in Europe to grant Jews the full rights of citizenship without qualification. — Leon Uris

Language is not the frosting, it's the cake. — Tom Robbins

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity and inequality, even passion and opportunity. — Frank Gehry

Were you BORN inhuman or did you grow so by degrees?! MS, MD, PHD? — Lois McMaster Bujold

In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture. — Edgar Schein