quotes about Probity

“In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.”

“Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares”

“Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?”

“Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.”

“Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.”

“Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality.”

“I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.”

“I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher”

“I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

“Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.”