"The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days"

-- Clement Attlee

#Glasses Quotes #House Quotes #Historical Quotes

“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.”
“I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world...INSIDE OUT.”

Source : "My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out". TED Prize 2011, www.ted.com. March 2011.
“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.”
“I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.”

Source : Martha Finley (1867). “Elsie Dinsmore”, p.304
“I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.”
“Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.”

Source : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster
“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”
“I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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