"You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'"

-- Ian Hislop

#Thinking Quotes #Problem Quotes #No Problem Quotes

“If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.”
“Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything.”
“Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.”
“This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.”
“If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.
“I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book.”
“A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.”

Source : Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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