quotes about Tahoe

“In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.”

“A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.”

“I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.”

“I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.”

“A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.”

“No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

“Identify what all the issues are & when you find them don't hide from them.”

“For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.”

Source : John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.76, Manchester University Press

“This will be my first visit [to Israel]. I've heard it's a special place, that Tel Aviv is exciting and that the atmosphere is excellent....I hope I'll have time to visit the holy places.”

“O medo corta mais profundamente do que as espadas.”