"The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe."

-- William Eldridge Odom

#Europe Quotes #Land Quotes #Rights Quotes

“You are beautiful and brilliant and bold and so very passionate about life and love and those things that you believe in. And you taught me that everything I believed, everything I thought I wanted, everything I had spent my life espousing--all of it...it is wrong. I want your version of life...vivid and emotional and messy and wonderful and filled with happiness. But I cannot have it without you.”
“You must suggest to me reality---you can never show me reality.”

Source : George Inness, Leo G. Mazow, Rachael Ziady DeLue (1999). “George Inness, the 1880s and 1890s”
“The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.”
“The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.”
“Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and I'm thinking, Is this really worth it? Or am I doing this only because my mother taught me never to give up? Then you realize, no, even if it doesn't come back to you, you are touching people.”
“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.”

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