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“The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen, nor strayeth far from his bed; The short days pass unwelcomed one by one.”
Source : Elkin Mathews, Laurence Binyon, Robert Bridges, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Richard Watson Dixon (1897). “Garland of New Poetry”
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“On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!”
Source : "Grandeur and Misery of Victory". Book by Georges Clemenceau, trans. F. M. Atkinson, p. 279 (quoting Matthias Erzberger), 1930.
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“The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.”
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“Be purposeful. Be patient, and be active!”
Source : John Assaraf, Murray Smith (2008). “The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life”, p.63, Simon and Schuster
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“I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.”
Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 208), 1991.
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“There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then its up to you to make it happen.”
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“Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.”
Source : Stuart Cloete (1947). “The Third Way”
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“I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.”
