"To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder."

--

Source : Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”

Rose Macaulay

#Ambition Quotes #Lunch Quotes #Goal Quotes

“History started badly and has been getting steadily worse.”
“The only thing that relieves pressure is preparation.”
“It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such. No more critical task can be projected for the 1970s than that of seeking for civilized society a new, elevated set of value guidelines more suited to man's expanded numbers and new powers over nature, a frame of reference for value priorities that will act to secure and conserve our world instead of destroying it.”

Source : "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, p. 119, 1972.
“Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.”
“The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.”

Source : John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.14, Vintage
“My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before?”
“A big part of me just lets everything go.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it.”

Source : R. J. Hollingdale (2001). “Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

You may also like:

Barbara Pym
Novelist
E. M. Delafield
Author
Elizabeth Bowen
Novelist
Henry Green
Author
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Novelist
Naomi Mitchison
Novelist
Richard Jefferies
Writer
Rosamond Lehmann
Novelist
Stella Gibbons
Author