quotes on career

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. ~Joseph Conrad



Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell. ~Lewis G. Janes



True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ~Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld



The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958



He who burns his bridges better be a damn good swimmer. ~Author Unknown



It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ~William G. McAdoo



Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ~John F. Kennedy



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The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Christmas brings enormous electric bills. Candles are used for Hanukkah. Not only are we spared enormous electric bills, but we get to feel good about not contributing to the energy crisis. ~KOACH Humor, "Holiday Distinctions Finally Explained" (KOACH College Outreach is a project of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism)



Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round. ~Jessica Archmint



He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum



To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb



We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard



There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "Life and Human Nature," Afterthoughts, 1931



Nature is a writer's best friend. ~Agave Powers



Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep



There is no substitute for mother's milk. ~Martin H. Fischer



Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river. ~Will Durant