"I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability."

-- Ellen Goodman

#Home Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Plot Quotes

“Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.”

Source : Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.87, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“Don't be entitled - earn your success.”
“What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?”
“A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.”
“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
“It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.”
“The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I truly don't know what I'd do.”
“We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.”

Source : Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

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