"Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully"

-- Isobelle Carmody

#Feet Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years”
“There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.”
“Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had....”

Source : James Gleick (2000). “Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything”, Vintage
“When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.”
“I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.”
“One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.”
“I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.”
“Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not having it. They didn't realize what this book succinctly displays: that the President has something far more important-CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information, and make discerning decisions.”

Source : "George Bush's forte for gifted leadership" by Marc Abrahams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2008.

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