Josephine demott Robinson Famous Quotes
My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.
Josephine demott Robinson Quotations
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by."
James Barrie
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users.
Edward Tufte
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael Jordon
"Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable."
John D MacDonald
It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
Henry Brougham
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William H Borah
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Jean Rostand
"I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)"
Jim Lehrer