"Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work."

-- Thomas Aquinas

#Wise Quotes #Men Quotes #Relax Quotes

“This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.”
“I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.”
“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.”
“To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.”
“I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.”
“I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on.”
“My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.”

Source : Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.30, Random House
“Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.”

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