"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."

-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Taken Quotes #Risk Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.”
“I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.”
“Estimating is what you do when you don't know.”

Source : "Estimates and Influence," Foreign Service Journal (April 1969).
“Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.”
“The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet?”
“We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.”
“Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!”

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