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“No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.”
Source : Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”
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“The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.”
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“Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.”
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“We must be still before God.”
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“Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.”
Source : Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers: A Novel”, p.308, Ballantine Books
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“The course of business shapes public opinion.”
Source : "The development of executive leadership", by Marvin Bower, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration. (p. v), 1949.
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“When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.”
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“Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”
Source : "The danger of a single story". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July, 2009. 
