"And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time."

-- Andrew Marvell

#Fall Quotes #Way Quotes #Rowing Quotes

“I think there are some mass destruction capabilities that are still inside Iraq. I think there's some weapons that have been shipped over the border to Syria. But I don't think we're going to find that their capabilities provided the imminent threat that many feared in this country. So I think it's going to be a tough search, but I think there's stuff there.”
“Modern Australian trade unionism and the unionist that I am doesn't rely on a class war view that somehow that the interests of employees and managers are in two separate spheres and they're irreconcilable. I believe that when people can go to work and be happy, satisfied, engaged, where the employer is getting employees who feel their interests are aligned with the employer, you get productivity. This is the future of Australian workplaces.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.”
“Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.”
“I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.”

Source : Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.101, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“More than guided missiles, all the world needs guided men.”

Source : Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.227, Revell
“One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.”
“This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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