Famous quotes containing the words grateful, dead, main and/or career:
“I will write, as in the past, simply for the pleasure of writing, for myself alone, with no thought of money or fame. Apollo at least will be grateful to me, and perhaps at last I will produce something beautifulfor all things make way before the unceasing striving of an energetic sentiment.”
—Gustave Flaubert (18211880)
“For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Irelands dead and gone,
Its with OLeary in the grave.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timbers will be unsafe; and if the smaller timbers are not straight, the house will fall.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows whats good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)