"For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face."

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Source : "The Historian". Book by Elizabeth Kostova, June, 2005.

Elizabeth Kostova

#Looks Quotes #Faces Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.”
“When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.”
“Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.”

Source : Owen Barfield, Jeanne Clayton Hunter, Thomas Kranidas (1993). “A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction By Owen Barfield”, p.152, SUNY Press
“This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers around you, understand their skill, confidence and aggression levels, and drive with them accordingly. Know who is driving next to you. Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.”
“Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.”
“The concern now is whether policymakers even understand the meaning of evidence. Whether there is any truth to this descriptor of "fact-free era." Whether policy is going to be made more and more in the absence of scientific input.”
“To me acting and singing are worlds apart.”

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