Willa Cather Quotes

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

Willa Cather

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947

Topics

KindnessPeopleMomentsSecurity

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

John Burroughs

WorkHappinessMomentI AmHappy

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

Robert Kiyosaki

DaySchoolMissionYouMilitary

If you look at the economics of Nokia, roughly half of the company, half of the business, half of how we think about the business is focused on those emerging markets and on those lower-priced devices. But, of course, people who are aspirational and buying those lower-priced devices today are looking at smart phones tomorrow, and so forth.

Stephen Elop

BusinessTodaySmartTomorrowPeople

Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.

Simon Mainwaring

SocietyThinkNeedShareholdersUsed

What's the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?

Rose Namajunas

BestWorldPushYouDownWay

Israel's decision on whether to strike or not is dictated not from the atmosphere and not from American or European promises but is based on the Iranian project. And I don't think the Iranians would agree to anything that would satisfy Israel.

Ronen Bergman

DecisionPromisesThinkAmerican

When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.

Christian Louboutin

DetailYouBodyIntentionShoe

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.

Clive Owen

I AmSoccerBigFanVeryLiverpool

We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.

Powers Boothe

BusinessAnythingMakingElseFilms

Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.

Phil Silvers

DownBeingMovieThemTurnsKramer

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

Susan George

WorkGreatEndGoWantSee

I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.

Pete Waterman

ThinkRealityYouKnowReality TV

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