"What is conceived well is expressed clearly."

-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Simplicity Quotes #Wells Quotes

“It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.”
“The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.”

Source : Roger Lowenstein (2013). “Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist”, p.177, Random House
“Focusing on negative situations is never helpful.”

Source : "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.”
“But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.”

Source : On the depression of the1930s which inspired her to set up the Social Security system. Recalled on her death,14 May1965.
“What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.”

Source : "Dangerous Liaisons". www.imdb.com. 1988.
“Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?”

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