It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to ta...ke an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things... of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The differences between the President and the Prime Minister were at least in one respect something more than the obvious differen...ces of national character, education, and even temperament. For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World; while Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sense of the technological possibilities of our time, and the restless roaming of his fancy in considering how they might be most imaginatively applied, despite his enthusiasm for Basic English, or the siren suit which so upset his hosts in Moscow--despite all this, Churchill remains a European of the nineteenth century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions .... You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not go...ing to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I care not for these ladies, That must be wooed and prayed;... Give me kind Amaryllis, The wanton country maid. Nature art disdaineth; Her beauty is her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you con...demn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Corporate America will likely be motivated to support child care when it can be shown to have positive effects on that which manag...ement is concerned about--recruitment, retention and productivity. Indeed, employers relate to child care as a way to provide growth fostering environments for young managers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is one of the most serious intrusions into personal life that I can think of, and it's as bad as anything I've ever experienc...ed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »