"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Art Quotes #America Quotes #World Quotes

“Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.”

Source : William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent ***** is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.”
“Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.”
“At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.”
“Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!”
“Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.”

Source : Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press
“When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.
“All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.”

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