"For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career."

-- Vita Sackville-West

#Men Quotes #Careers Quotes #Long Quotes

“Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.”
“We have seen already how resistant public opinion is, firstly to comprehension of the new paradigm in which we have to operate; and secondly, to the rationale behind the decisions we have had to take.”
“There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country but across the Middle East: Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel' â€” or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood? Which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East â€” the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment â€” the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.”

Source : "McAleese apologises for Nazi remarks" by Paul Marinko and Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2005.
“In every work of art, the artist himself is present.”
“We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.”
“When I signed this past summer, Lou Lamoriello, Jacques Lemaire, and I agreed that if we were unable to find a suitable fit in which I would be able to compete and contribute at the level I expect from myself, then I would simply step aside.”
“I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”

Source : Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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