The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
All true love is grounded on esteem.
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves , both irreconcilable foes to truth.
The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.
What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.
We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity. . . underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations.
I knew that Vaclav Havel didn't want to look into people's eyes, because he said that, when he was being interrogated during the communist period and had been taken to jail, that, if you look directly into somebody's eyes, they can persuade you. And so you can see that so clearly in this interview, where he's looking down. And I kept saying to him as we kept coming - came over here: " You have to look up. "And I clearly had no influence on him.
William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s, on Americans' fundamental understandings of their world in a bicentennial year that offered little to celebrate, but also on the longing for heroism and the desire for belief in free will that Graebner believes structured the rise of Reagan-era conservatism. This is a masterful work of cultural history.
Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.