"She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion that to be reasonably happy you have to be reasonably good."

-- Carolyn Kizer

#Simple Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Able Quotes

“Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.”
“Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.”
“Sometimes you have to wonder if there isn't an ejector seat built into having a popular-music career. We were lucky when we started. We were already old when we started - you could have described our first album as "aging Brooklyn guys." We were in our late 20s. We weren't octogenarians, but a lot of bands were already younger than us. Fortunately, we've held on to our manly good looks.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“we must never forget that people buy into the leader before they buy into a mission statement.”

Source : James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.174, Crown Business
“I can't say I agree with something that takes the focus away from me.”
“One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.”

Source : "Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 121, 1780.
“Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself.”
“We have become so quick and effective in building things today. It would be easy to build another Pyramid of Giza or another Great Wall. But these buildings haven't withstood the test of time because of their building quality. They stand tall because they have a symbolic value, they represent a culture.”

You may also like: