Diana Whitney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the planeâ€™s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives, to imagine that we, too, might one day surge above much that now looms over us.â€ P. 38-39
The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

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