"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."

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Source : Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

Ernest Hemingway

#Life Quotes #Time Quotes #Learning Quotes

“Costis bowed stiffly. â€œI am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.”
“A lot of times people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.”

Source : "We want a billion Indians on WhatsApp, says co-founder Jan Koum". Interview with Romit Guha, economictimes.indiatimes.com. February 26, 2014.
“I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.”
“Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.”
“Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.”
“To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.”
“I have learned that trust comes and goes and love comes before hate. Elise age 10.”
“The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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