"Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish."

-- Bill Ford

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Personality Quotes

“The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morningâ€”first fallen flake of the coming snows of ageâ€”is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer youngâ€”that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.”
“Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.”
“May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.”
“Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.”
“There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.”
“I think in some cases busing did improve the situation in some areas; in some cases it didn't. We had busing in St. Louis, and it has been ended and we are using other methods of trying to better integrate the schools.”
“An awful lot of people are living only a foot above high water and do not know it.”
“All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (1994). “The Rock of Tanios”, George Braziller

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