quotes about Composure

“A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.”

“Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.”

“I don't want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself.”

“It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.”

Source : Quoted in the NewYork Times, 2 Jul 1989.

“I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.”

“Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue”

“The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.”

“As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”

“Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.”

“The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.”