#his

Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#eisenhower #full #his #indecision #makes

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#sacrifice #this-side-of-paradise #freedom

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff. ↗

— Erich Leinsdorf

#congressman #cuba #down #everything #had

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#any #did #father #fill #his

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#era #fascinated #history #i #i am

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution. ↗

— Jay Leno

#begins #believes #bush #cell #cell research

He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#behind #change #changed #does #earth

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#certain things #his #lose #over #things

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. ↗

— Kurt Lewin

#achievement #aspiration #goal #his #his way

... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless. ↗

— David Malouf

#life