"...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Rose Quotes #Monsters Quotes #Swallowing Quotes

“To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!”
“God help me, I'm just not that bright.”
“The Queen Seeker was back!”
“The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm”

Source : Gay Talese (2013). “The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World”, p.60, Random House
“I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about. When they say that we're buying too much from overseas, that we're sending too many dollars overseas to get all these goods and services they got, they're saying that the American dollar is too strong and that is hurting our economy. And the result of this will be that the American dollar will get too weak, and that will hurt our economy.”
“Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?”
“I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.”
“There are plenty of times we need fierce compassion, fierce love. Just like when a child does something that is very harmful and we say "No!", we need some kind of fierceness. There's a certain kind of fierceness that can look like anger and has that fire of anger, but the difference is that it's not blinded with reactivity.”

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