“People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 89 of 303
“I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy”
“The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
“The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.”
“I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.”
“I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.”
“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.”
“The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"”
“I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.”
“A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say it is because he and his friend share similar attitudes. But if you actually quiz the two of them on their attitudes, you’ll find out that what they actually share is similar activities. We’re friends with the people we do things with, as much as we are with the people we resemble. We don’t seek out friends, in other words. We associate with the people who occupy the same small, physical spaces that we do.”
“We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.”
“In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make.”
“What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.”
“Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.”
“It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.”
“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
“No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.”
“Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.”
“One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.”
“I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.”