"The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood."

-- Charles Churchill

#Woods Quotes #Flood Quotes #Command Quotes

“I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.32, Pan Macmillan
“You canâ€™t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like thereâ€™s been a murder in the operating room. If you send a rocket to the moon, about ninety percent of the time itâ€™s off courseâ€”it â€˜failsâ€™ its way to the moon by continually making mistakes and correcting them.”
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”

Source : Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
“Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.”
“A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
“Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure”
“A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.”
“There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.”

Source : "The Vietnam War: An Intimate History". Book by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, September 5, 2017.

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