"If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention."

-- Derek Jeter

#Names Quotes #Attention Quotes #Pay Quotes

“The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue...nor afford us any exclusive trade...is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited.”

Source : "Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden M.P". Book edited by James E. Thorold Rogers, 1878.
“Art is â€¦ a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.”
“... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.”
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: youâ€™re falling to the floor crying thinking, â€œI am falling to the floor crying,â€ but thereâ€™s an element of the ridiculous to it â€” you knew it would happen and, even worse, while youâ€™re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didnâ€™t paint it very well.”
“If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.”

Source : Number 200 statement from the 282 provisions to the fees due to Medical Practitioners in the Code of Hammurabi
“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.”
“Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.”
“But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.”

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