"Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer."

-- Jonathan Raban

#Prayer Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.”
“The core philosophy we share with leaders is that everyone can develop the qualities in themselves. We all have strengths, but where we have gaps, we can make small changes in our behavior that make a big difference in how others see us as leaders.”
“I never loved the world around me as it was.”

Source : "Christian Lacroix: 'I am not nostalgic for the past'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.
“Every night before bed, I rub my wife's feet. She says they're the best foot rubs on Earth.”
“A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.”
“Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.”
“I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad.”
“We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.”

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