"I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown."

-- Thomas Jefferson

#Giving Quotes #Tree Quotes #House Quotes

“As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.”

Source : "Mike White on His HBO Pilot ENLIGHTENED, THEM and SCHOOL OF ROCK 2". Interview, collider.com. October 21, 2009.
“I think what happened is that everybody's impressions got formed in those first few minutes. And I felt like, by the latter part of it, I kind of clawed my way back into the discussion. But everybody's impressions were set at the beginning. And wholly apart from me and whether I was good or bad, you know, there were a lot of hostile questions.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.”
“Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.”
“If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.”

Source : Alexander Crummell (1969). “Africa and America”, p.376, Рипол Классик
“The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.”
“I like to make myself laugh. When I'm just sitting with a sketchbook and trying to make myself laugh or trying to come up with ideas, I try not to worry about aim right away. I'm just sort of shooting in all directions.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”

Source : Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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