"They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great."

-- William Ralph Inge

#Perspective Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“Winston Churchill led the life that many men would love to live. He survived 50 gunfights and drank 20,000 bottles of champagne. [...] And of course, by resisting Hitler, he saved Europe and perhaps the world.”

Source : "Churchill’s Finest Hour". www.city-journal.org. November 24, 2009.
“The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.”

Source : William Stringfellow (2004). “An Ethic For Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.”
“Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him.”
“Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.”

Source : Guy Davenport (1997). “The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays”, p.93, David R. Godine Publisher
“I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.”

Source : "Portlandia Brings Out the Fan in Carrie Brownstein" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. January 06, 2012.
“I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.”
“I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.”

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