"They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was."

-- Ray Bradbury

#Leadership Quotes #Kings Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Everybody who comes to the EU as a migrant is basically coming illegally.”
“I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.”

Source : "Women of Britain - your designers need you!" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2009.
“At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood.”
“Fans these days seem to almost expect a response from band-members any time they tweet or leave a comment etc.”
“It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care”

Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.411, Rowman & Littlefield
“When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.”
“Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.”
“Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you what I think looks good, but you have to wear it. And as every fashion victim knows, very few people look good in everything.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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