#ros

Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#background #both #carry #classical #classical music

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift. ↗

— Paul Getty

#bring #cannot #discouraging #prosperity #thrift

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. ↗

— Paul Getty

#built #foundations #great #great american #period

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room. ↗

— Stan Getz

#always #clearer #could #dark #fill

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#council #enough #failure #i #maybe

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#change #consideration #courage #forget #just

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#ahead #am #analyzing #approve #because

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. ↗

— Peter Straub

#assume #blue #core #incorrect #lie

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#giving #less #more #need #pride

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#giving #i #i do #me #more