Quotes About Jacob Vizel

“To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

“It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I never lost money by turning a profit.”
― Bernard M. Baruch, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

“Understanding is a two-way street.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?”
― Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

“I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burnt on the water.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth

“One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet