To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. I...t is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The myth of superwoman has hung on long after the media stopped airing fantasy-based commercials about working women's lives: Here... she comes, home from the office after 12 hours of high-powered negotiations in the executive suite. Her designer suit is still fresh and unwrinkled, her face radiant and unlined as she opens her arms to greet her two adorable children--and sends a seductive glance toward her handsome husband, beaming proudly in the background. Watch her as, with one smooth motion, she slips off her jacket and into a dainty apron as she glides toward the spotless kitchen to create a three-course meal for her beloved family. After dinner she will check the children's French homework and read them a chapter of Jane Eyre before tucking the little cherubs into bed. While her husband watches the late-night news, she will disappear into the den to make an overseas call that will clinch a multinational deal for her company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake. My house was on a cliff. The thing could take... Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row. Then the long pause and then the bigger shake. It seemed the best thing to be up and go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment--...the sober second thought--of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had many problems in my conduct of the office being contrasted with President Kennedy's conduct in the office, with my manner of... dealing with things and his manner, with my accent and his accent, with my background and his background. He was a great public hero, and anything I did that someone didn't approve of, they would always feel that President Kennedy wouldn't have done that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's something about the dead silence of an office building at night. Not quite real. The traffic down below is something that ...didn't have anything to do with me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Infirmity doth still neglect all office Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves... When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »