"Valor is superior to number."

-- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#Military Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Valor Quotes

“As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do some repetitive job, but not intelligent enough to make their own terms with society." Those "intelligent enough" to make their own terms with society are what we will later refer to as artists of life. The outsider views himself as a product of a culture he rejects-the artist views himself as a culture-builder.”

Source : Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.94, Penguin
“Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1852). “The Optimist: A Series of Essays”, p.248
“Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire.”
“We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.”
“Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.”
“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from May 09, 2016
“If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them cold pitches and start taking a hard look at their stable of regular contributors. How many women are on the masthead? How many women columnists or bloggers are on the payroll? This is how real change is going to happen.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought”

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