Pulcheria quotes

“The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.”
-- Pulcheria

#Leadership Quotes #People Quotes #Touching Quotes

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts”

“And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.”

“Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind....He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit”

“But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.”