Phil Angelides famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within â€” and make the point: This can be done.
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.
In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.
The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.
For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

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