"August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier."

-- W. H. Auden

#August Quotes #Islands Quotes #People Quotes

“Consumers want a better world, not just better widgets.”
“No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the most important problems they think they can solve. It is, after all, their professional business to solve problems, not merely to grapple with them.”
“Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos. When we offer thanks to God or to another human being, gratitude gifts us with renewal, reflection, reconnection.”

Source : Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More”, p.25, Hachette UK
“Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.”

Source : 1987 'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.
“When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.”
“My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.”

Source : Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.120, Penguin
“You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.”
“Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.”

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