All Quotes

"Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success."

"I've always said that coaching is like being a king. It prepares you for absolutely nothing."

"When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates...and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back."

"Great moments are born from great opportunity."

"Dual citizenship does not give someone the power to pick and choose which laws to follow depending on convenience. This honorable court should therefore be wary of opening a backdoor to absolute divorce between Filipino citizens. We also risk encouraging a trend where Filipino citizens go abroad, obtain a divorce, then switch citizenship to have that divorce recognized at home. That is not what the law provides and it is not what the framers intended."

"Minimalism"

"Emotional atmosphere"

"Natural light"

"Visual storytelling"

"“Light teaches me to look, and silence teaches me to feel.”"

"“Every image I create is a step toward understanding myself.”"

"“The world becomes clearer when I see it through a frame.”"

"In character he was amiable and virtuous."

"I am not a drag queen."

"I'm Jamaican, y'know."

"From the very first possessed a correct and vigorous style, and a nice sense of language, which were hereditary rather than implanted, and to these qualities was added a delightful strain of humour, shedding a current or original thought all through her writings. That her unusual gifts should have been so early developed is hardly surprising with one of her sympathetic temperament when we remember the throng of remarkable men and women who frequented the Austins' house. The Mills, the s, the s, the Carlyles, the s, Sydney Smith, , , Jeremy Bentham, and Lord Jeffrey, were among the most intimate friends of her parents, and 'Toodie,' as they called her, was a universal favourite with them. Once, staying at a friend's house, and hearing their little girl rebuked for asking questions, she said: ' My mamma never says "I don't know" of "Don't ask questions." '"

"It is very unlikely that we would drive to extinction any native Martian microorganisms in the process of extending the habitability of Mars."

"Of 's seven children, was perhaps the handsomest and most gifted; the extraordinary vigour of her mind and body was almost overpowering, but it stood her in good stead during a long and not over-prosperous life, and was tempered by an excellent judgment and a very kind heart. No one ever appealed to her in vain; and in her old age children flocked round her with delight to hear "" or one of , so well and graphically told."

"Cabbage (Red) ' alla Fiamminga.' Remove the outer leaves of a and cut it in pieces. Put it into boiling water for fifteen minutes, then dry, and place it in a sauce-pan with four ounces of , a chopped-up onion, a , two s, and a little salt and pepper. Boil slowly for about half an hour, stirring it often. When cooked, take out the bay leaf, add a little butter and serve quickly."

"How many of the travelers who visit now remember that she is one of the most ancient cities of Italy, and was famous when Rome was but a hamlet? They can see the ancient walls, but can they conceive that in the long history of the community settled between the rivers and the grey lines of buildings are but of yesterday? They may perhaps remember that a palace of Hadrian, one of the greatest or Roman Emperors, stood where the now stands; that temples to Apollo and to covered the sites of the churches of and in Borgo; that at the foot of the Via S. Maria grave priestesses of sang hymns in honour their goddess, who ripened the golden corn which covered the plains from the Monte Pisano to the coast; and that in a temple which stood in the Piazza S. Andrea love-sick young men and maidens presented their offerings at the shrine of Venus and made their vows to the goddess they evoked. But can they realize that in those far-off days, before our Christian era began, Pisa was a city so old that its beginnings were even then half-concealed, half-concealed, half-disclosed, in legends of her origin?"

"The great event of my life was my birthday, when I was allowed to dine downstairs, and to invite my particular friends. My fifth I well remember, for Thackeray played a trick on the "young revolutionist," as he afterwards called me, because I was born on the . My guests were , , , Bayley, and Thackeray, who gave me an oyster, declaring that it was like cabinet pudding. But I turned the tables on him, for I liked it, and insisted, as queen of the day, on having two more of his. I still possess a sketch he made for the of ' while I was sitting on his knee."

"... ... made the move, relocating to ... the . He formally entered the city in February 1865 ... Two years after this Janet arrived from Alexandria, Egypt, where she had been living with her husband Henry Ross, for the previous five years. Her trip to was planned as a short holiday. She booked a berth on a run-down steamer that took a route out from Alexandria across the Mediterranean to the southern Italian port of . From there she went by carriage northwards up the peninsula, through beautiful countryside with hills of old knotted olive trees and swathes of perfumed lavender, beneath a brilliant blue sky. Her plan was to arrive in Florence and stay for a fortnight as the guest of an old family friend and relative by marriage, , the British Ambassador to Italy. She had read about Florence, its treasures and its history. She was familiar with its great writers, Dante and Boccaccio, the unsurpassed beauty created by its painters, and the understated order achieved by its architects. She had heard stories of the proud patrician families with their age-old feuds and allegiances — names like , and — and she knew something of the story of Savonarola and how he was burnt at the stake in the . This was her opportunity to witness for herself the history that till now she had only read about in books."

"Janet Ross was one of those -like dragons for whom the word “formidable” was practically invented. Born in London in 1842, she spent the last six decades of her life — from 1867 until her death in 1927 — as an increasingly commanding personage in the Anglo-Tuscan colony around , where she was known (and feared) as Aunt Janet. freely acknowledges near the beginning of “Queen Bee of Tuscany” that Ross “had her limitations. Though intelligent and learned, especially for an autodidact, she was by no means brilliant. She had little imagination or inner life, and she made no towering contribution to humanity.” Thus the biographer throws down his own gauntlet: Why, then, are we reading about her? Downing, a co-editor of , and a walking Who’s Who of the , provides an answer in the form of It’s Who She Knew. And Aunt Granite (as the younger generation called her) knew everybody — or at least everybody who passed through Florence, which in Downing’s telling comes to the same thing. An endless procession of now forgotten artists and writers and social somebodies made their way to her door. Major figures do show up. In 1887, Henry James pays her a three-day visit, although “nowhere in her writings,” Downing acknowledges, somewhat sheepishly, “does she so much as mention James.”"

"Mrs. Ross laid in our wood, wine and servants for us, and they are excellent. She had the house scoured from Cellar to rook the curtains washed and put up, all beds pulled to pieces, beaten, washed, and put together again, and beguiled the Marchese into putting a big porcelain stove in the vast central hall. She is a wonderful woman, and we don't quite see how or when we should have gotten under way without her."

""I don’t want to be plastic kasi,” Concepcion went on. “I want to be as real as possible. Sa ginagalawan nating industriya, parang palagi na lang you’re always on the safe side, you’re going to say what people want to hear. Huwag na ‘yung ganu’n. Gawin natin, totoo na tayo" (I don’t want to be plastic. I want to be as real as possible. In the industry we work in, it seems like you’re always on the safe side, you’re going to say what people want to hear. Don’t do that. Let’s be real.)"

"Kang’s vision was rooted in a radical reinterpretation of Confucianism. He saw Confucius not as a conservative sage but as a reformer and believed that a properly reformed monarchy could be the vessel for China’s modernization. His 1902 treatise “Datong Shu” (Book of Great Unity) imagined a utopian world of gender equality, global governance, and technological harmony—a vision that was both startlingly progressive and deeply hierarchical. … Kang Youwei may have been cast out of China, but from the Chinatowns of Vancouver to the lecture halls of New York, he built a movement that reshaped the global Chinese imagination. … It is not surprising that he finds admirers in contemporary Xi Jinping’s China although whether they share or even understand the spiritual roots of his message remains unclear."

"If the World Cup games are in Mexico maybe we will go"

"We do not need a lunar-orbiting station to go to the Moon. We do not need such a station to go to Mars. We do not need it to go to near-Earth asteroids. We do not need it to go anywhere. Nor can we accomplish anything in such a station that we cannot do in the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, except to expose human subjects to irradiation – a form of medical research for which a number of Nazi doctors were hanged at Nuremberg"

"Musk can probably build a giant AI data centre on the Moon. But if it can’t compete with much cheaper alternatives on Earth, it could prove a financial disaster that collapses his credibility, and with it his entire corporate empire"

"Ulixem stolatum."

"Postremo Livia gravis in rem publicam mater, gravis domui Caesarum noverca."

"PAO lawyers have been working day and night, even our pregnant lawyers, those with diabetes, they go to police stations, to courts to assist our indigent clients. It is unfair to generalize our PAO lawyers. Please spare PAO from politics."

"firm of heart against the disbelievers, compassionate among themselves."

"There's a special place in hell reserved for pro-Trump Iranians."

"400,000 armed people are ready to go to revolt against the United States government system"

"Russia and China will win the war not just Iran"

"We have arm around Americans neck we will be slapping it when it moves"

"If anyone comes to street they are seen as enemies and not as protestors.All our kids are putting their finger on triggers all alleys , streets , city squares belong to Police, special units and The IRGC Basij."

"I can see that the peace deal is within our reach... if we... allow diplomacy the space it needs to get there... I don't think any alternative to diplomacy is going to solve this problem. ...The heart of this deal is very important and ...we have captured that heart. ...[I]f the ultimate objective is to ensure forever, that Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb ...we have cracked that problem ...[W]e are talking about zero stockpiling ...[I]f you cannot stockpile material that is enriched ...there is no way you can ...create a bomb ...and ...equally important ...full and comprehensive verification by the IAEA ...The current stockpiles ...will be down-blended to the lowest level possible ...and converted into fuel that ...will be irreversible. ...I am ...confident ...that even the United States inspectors will have access at some point ...if we have a deal that is respected, and fair, and ...durable ...We have agreed, in general, to discuss economic and security cooperation between Iran and its neighbors, and set up a process of dialogue that will ...start the elements of building confidence, ...a rapport, a process that can ...lead ...to an understanding on all these ...areas of concern ...on the Iranian side, and ...on the GCC side. ...Broad terms, ...the politics, the ...main issues ...can be agreed [upon] tomorrow. The technicalities will take some time to work... out with... the IAEA. ...[T]hat can also be done ...relatively quickly, because a lot of this ...groundwork was done years ago, and it's ...in place. ...The substantial progress... is... far more than any time before. We just need that bit of extra time to close the deal."

"Raise your heart, not your hand."

"Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors."

"You cannot force love, to force love is to ruin it."

"Love is like a butterfly, when it comes and sits on your palm, you can either care for it and let it fly if it wishes, or you can trap it and see it die."

"A person to take refuge in, a purpose to be driven by, that's all you need to lead a good life."

"Often arrogance is a defense mechanism against the possibility of judgement. Though it sounds righteous, most times it makes us the evil we try to prevent."

"Better a kindhearted fool than a heartless tool."

"Artificial intelligence will not destroy this planet, irresponsible human intelligence will."

"Problem with AI is that, they're born yesterday, yet they pretend like they've lived forever. Problem with humans is that, we've been here a long time, yet we behave like we're born yesterday."

"Algorithm without humanity is mental holocaust."

"It is okay to own a technology, what is not okay is to be owned by technology."