"Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Wind Quotes #Mind Quotes #Burden Quotes

“No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.”

Source : Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.91, Cambridge University Press
“The benefits of studying abroad are almost endless.”
“Consequences don’t just go away. They aren’t suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.”

Source : Tracie Peterson (2005). “What She Left for Me”, p.204, Baker Books
“Private property works like circuitry in electronics, or piping in hydraulics. It conveys wages to the owners of labor power, as well as the various forms of nonwage property income to the owners of capital. In itself, it is no more responsible for maldistribution of purchasing power than the science of bookkeeping is responsible for bankruptcy.”
“Some people were born just so they could be buried.”

Source : Donald Ray Pollock (2011). “The Devil All the Time”, p.66, Random House
“If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.”
“Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.”
“Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.”

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