"New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire."

-- Henry James

#New York Quotes

“The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our enemies' priorities.”
“That's what life is about: People come and go.”
“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”
“I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great.”
“It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.”
“Let's say you have $1,000,000 tied up in your little company and suddenly your advertising isn't working and sales are going down. And everything depends on it. Your future depends on it, your family's future depends on it, other people's families depend on it. Now, what do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the goddamned sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?”
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”

Source : "The Oresteian Trilogy". Play by Aeschylus, 458 BC.
“My captain once said that you meet people in your life who you believe will be your companions on the road, only to discover that they fall by the wayside. Others who you meet without design climb mountains with you,”

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