"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Life Quotes #Change Quotes #Wise Quotes

“But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me.”

Source : "Two Speed World: The Impact of Explosive and Gradual Change". Book by Terry Lloyd, 2010.
“As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.”
“Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.”
“I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.”
“I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.”

Source : They and I (1909) ch. 11
“I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.”
“But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.”
“I'm 14 years in the game, ... There's some kids that weren't even born when my first album came out. I wanted to draw a timeline between my old stuff and my new stuff and bridge it to where there's a level of continuity.”

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