"Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters."

-- Euripides

#Children Quotes #Successful Quotes #Men Quotes

“Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts. It cannot be forced on the smallest nation or enforced by the largest. It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.”
“Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.”
“In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'”
“If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.”
“I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.”
“History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.”

Source : Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”
“It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.”
“My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.”

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