"Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes."

-- Zong Qinghou

#Successful Quotes #Blood Quotes #People Quotes

“Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19
“I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!”
“In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis, David Peters Corbett (1994). “The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature”, p.183, Taylor & Francis
“Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.”
“The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.”

Source : John Keegan (1987). “The Mask of Command”, Random House (UK)
“It was like an explosion. You just don't get ready for it. I don't even know how you can, because you just don't expect it. For me, up until that point, you would do a gig, and then you'd go out and try to find the next job.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.”
“These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind”

Source : Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.2675, Delphi Classics

You may also like:

Carlos Slim
Business person
Jack Ma
Entrepreneur
Jeff Bezos
Entrepreneur
Jet Li
Film actor
Li Ka-shing
Investor
Ma Huateng
Entrepreneur
Robin Li
Entrepreneur
Wang Jianlin
Businessman
Warren Buffett
Investor