Famous quotes containing the words robert, treat and/or council:
“Not only is this the greatest adventure awaiting mankind, but it’s the greatest challenge ever hurled at American industry.”
—Rip Van Ronkel, and Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988)
“One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends and ... it behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“I haven’t seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were asked this week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company’s behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)