"People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want."

Mamet, David | Honesty | 1 bookmarks

"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey."

Proust, Marcel | Illness | 1 bookmarks

"As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands."

Byron, Lord | Ambition | 2 bookmarks

"Time is that in which all things pass away."

Schopenhauer, Arthur | Time and Time Management | 1 bookmarks

"Passions are the only orators to always convinces us."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De | Speakers and Speaking | 1 bookmarks

"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."

Wilde, Oscar | Duty | 1 bookmarks

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

Half, Robert | Talent | 9 bookmarks

"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed."

Churchill, Winston | Security | 4 bookmarks

"If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."

Trotsky, Leon | Planning | 1 bookmarks

"He who is not impatient is not in love."

Proverb, Italian | Love | 2 bookmarks