quotes about Ada

“Thanks. For everything. I mean it.’ A slow grin edged onto his face. ‘You’re worth it…Princess.’ Her tennis show hit the door a second after it closed.”

“A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.”

Source : 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 48 (on Comenus)

“Counting blessings is better than recounting problems”

“If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.”

Source : Charles MACKAY, Sir John Gilbert (1859). “The Collected Songs of Charles Mackay. With Illustrations by J. Gilbert”, p.126

“I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to leave and escaped former slaves had been allowed to remain free, and the North and the rest of the world had been a positive influence on the South. However, it's certainly a possibility that it would have ended sooner if the southern slave owners had agreed to a system of compensated emancipation and freed the slaves without a war and without secession, as most nations that ended slavery did. That absolutely would have been preferable to the Civil War as it happened.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

“New ideas must use old buildings”

“Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.”

Source : Diana Wynne Jones (2013). “The Chrestomanci Series: Entire Collection”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

“To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.”

“I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.”

“Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.”