quotes about Fracture

“It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.”

“I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people”

“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.”

“A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.”

Source : John Flanagan (2011). “Oakleaf Bearers (Ranger's Apprentice Book 4)”, p.301, Random House

“My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.”

“It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.”

“The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

“People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'”

“The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.”

“I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four," he said, patting his hands together. "I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie. Constance, my dear?" "Yes, Uncle Julian?" "I am going to say that my wife was a beautiful woman.”