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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b8701e9 | If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes. | Alexander the Great | ||
| 816e1c1 | I do not steal victory. | Alexander the Great | ||
| e72d8d6 | So would I, if I were Parmenion. | Alexander the Great | ||
| 201a77f | To the strongest! | Alexander the Great | ||
| caa3df3 | How could I possibly be a better person without her than with her? Later, I thought: but he is just echoing Nietzsche's line about what doesn't kill us making us stronger. And as it happens, I have long considered this epigram particularly specious. There are many things that fail to kill us but weaken us for ever. Look around at those emotionally damaged by mere ordinary life. | Julian Barnes | ||
| fb0ebd2 | This is true, and defines the lostness of the grief struck. You constantly report things, so that the loved one 'knows'. You may be aware that you are fooling yourself (though, if aware, are at the same time not fooling yourself), yet you continue. And everything you do, or might achieve thereafter, is thinner, weaker, matters less. There is no echo coming back; no texture, no resonance, no depth of field. | Julian Barnes | ||
| ae46698 | Don't let your tongue be your worst enemy. --John Franzese CHAPTER | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 8b7cd51 | There is nothing impossible to him who will try. | Alexander the Great | ||
| 415a4a4 | the habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| b361d34 | In this chapter we will look at the entire edifice of QFT. We will see that it is based on three simple principles. We will also list some of its achievements, including some new insights and understandings not previously mentioned. THE FOUNDATION QFT is an axiomatic theory that rests on a few basic assumptions. Everything you have learned so far, from the force of gravity to the spectrum of hydrogen, follows almost inevitably from these th.. | Rodney A. Brooks | ||
| 7f0e0c6 | Don't hit till you have to, but, when you do hit, hit hard. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| f5c68bf | Offer up every joy, be awake at all moments to the news that is always arriving out of silence. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| a4c3e69 | As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world. | reading reflection | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 0be2ab7 | I thereby learned the invaluable lesson that in the practical activities of life no man can render the highest service unless he can act in combination with his fellows, which means a certain amount of give-and-take between him and them." Restraining" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 3c2b46e | If I wasn't busy," she replied, "I'd go crazy." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| b47edce | The labor leader Samuel Gompers had long considered the production of cigars in unsanitary tenements "one of the most dreadful, cancerous sores" on the city of New York. Realizing" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 3282fc2 | The domestic scene," she admitted, referring not only to the coal dispute but to a rash of racial disturbances that had recently broken out, "is anything but encouraging and one would like not to think about it, because it gives one a feeling that, as a whole, we are not really prepared for democracy." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 0d646d1 | defiant of | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| f9f9f75 | Not only was he one of history's greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln was one of history's most devoted readers. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes of Lincoln, "Books became his academy, his college. The printed word united his mind with the great minds of generations past." | Pat Williams | ||
| 7e72c63 | The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired. | maturation reading | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 74e4339 | The more you read about a subject, he advised me, the more interesting it will seem. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 3dbca16 | Corinne suggested a different reason, indicating that her dying father had expressed concern about Theodore's intimacy with Edith, given Charles Carow's fiscal and temperamental instability. If Theodore discussed the issue with Edith that night, he might well have triggered the volatility that he would obscurely explain to Bamie as a clash of tempers "that were far from being of the best." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 69d7598 | He sought the knowledge--not easily accessible--of who had the power of decision over the particular matter in question, and, the source of authority identified, by what means influence could be exerted. This | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| a9a3623 | Assemblyman Isaac Hunt, who later became a close friend, would never forget the first time he saw Roosevelt. "He came in as if he had been ejected by a catapult," Hunt recalled." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 04c6fd0 | Even Roosevelt, with his singular disciplined drive, managed to quit work early four or five afternoons each week for a game of tennis or jog through Rock Creek Park before heading | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| cddd71c | Nothing so extraordinary has ever happened in American politics," a dazed Harold Ickes wrote. "Here was a man--a Democrat until a couple of years ago--who, without any organization went into a Republican National Convention and ran away with the nomination for President . " | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| dc0fe8c | The very qualities that had led to Johnson's political and legislative success were precisely those that now operated to destroy him: his inward insistence that the world adapt itself to his goals; his faith in the nation's limitless capacity; his tendency to evaluate all human activity in terms of its political significance; his insistence on translating every disruptive situation into one where bargaining was possible; his reliance on per.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 42550eb | Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl." -- | children-s-stories curiosity | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 410428e | Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do," she would write seven decades later." | cultivation reflection taste | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| d24dfb8 | He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success. | materialism pride | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 15fe14f | They would carry their books to the woods and read aloud to one another. At picnic lunches near Cooper's Bluff, they recited their favorite poems. "In the early days," Fanny recalled, "we all delighted in Longfellow and Mrs. Browning and Owen Meredith." Later, they turned to Swinburne, Kipling, Shelley, and Shakespeare. The Roosevelts" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 479b7ac | There I go When my heart all worn by grief Sinketh low. Where my baseless hopes do lie There to find my peace, go I. Sad and slow . . | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 327d104 | I find that without a place to work, it is difficult to work. I look forward with the greatest pleasure to the use of my books at night at home. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| bcf5407 | When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 81405e9 | Theodore) Roosevelt considered his experience with 'fellow ranchmen on what was then the frontier' to be 'the most educational asset' of his entire life, instrumental to his success in becoming president. | work | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| a70e652 | As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted the larger world. Like Edith, Theodore filled pages of his letters with talk of authors and their creations. He had carried Anna Karenina with him during this trip west and told Corinne that he "read it through with very great interest." Although he considered Tolstoy "a great writer," he found his work deeply unsettling. "Do you notice how he never .. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5ff8e70 | Roosevelt's revulsion at Tolstoy's infantile, pathetic, endearing bon vivant--his categorical interpretation of healthy relationships versus unhealthy relationships--reveals a deep-seated disgust with physical and moral slackness that would remain with him for the rest of his life. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| ecb5d84 | People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. | ministry pacifism spiritual-warfare | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 3a54f4c | If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality. | individuality | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 4e83d70 | We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2f778e9 | I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me. | marriage meekness partnership teamwork unity | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 66b1937 | The press of visitors, a New York Times reporter observed, never seemed "to try the President's strength or impair his good temper." At one o'clock, Roosevelt" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2c8eae3 | That very afternoon, Taft fell seriously ill with what doctors mistakenly diagnosed as dengue fever. He remained bedridden for ten days, and when he returned to work, severe rectal pain prevented him from sitting. At the same time, a fungal infection developed in his groin. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| ed63d46 | The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she couldn't change the reality of her situation, she could change her perception of it. She could enter into the lives of the characters in her books, sharing their journeys while she remained seated in her chair. | imagination reading | Doris Kearns Goodwin |