Pith
There’s no question but that being an ambassador – even in the rather intricate period that I was in India, even with, at one stage, a war on my hands, and dealing with such complex figures as Nehru and Krishna Menon – was infinitely easier than facing a typewriter every morning.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)
I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest, “not if you did not know.” “Then why,” asked the Eskimo earnestly, “did you tell me?”
Annie Dillard (1945- )
There is no sunset without clouds.
John Grant
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Doug Larson
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin.
Heinrich Heine
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
If living conditions don’t stop improving in this country, we’re going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
Russell P. Askue
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
