#per

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#lies #temperament #death

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. ↗

— Michael Eisner

#enlightening #experience #failing #good #life

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#common #common values #educated #egyptian #experienced

I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#avoid #chance #continue #cooperation #full

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no. ↗

— William Glasser

#fail #fulfill #later #life #many

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#experienced #explain #light #more #never

Business today consists in persuading crowds. ↗