"My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did."

-- Jack Adams

#Believe Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes

“It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.”
“if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used”
“No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.”
“I feel like I'm a good motivator; I'm very determined.”
“Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity”
“See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!”
“My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.”

Source : Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications
“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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