“It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.” MenLittlesBitsBrainImagineDangerousFieldsMetsLittle BitSuperiorsHumiliating Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.” YearsLittlesPersonsWantedBitsBornMinesCollegeMetsMajorsTwentiesSteadyRadarFickleRuts Book:Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir Source: Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir
“Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.” FeelsUseYoungGirlBitsWeekHonorMetsBurdenI RealizedEmbarrassedEmpoweredGood Words Author:Lucy Lawless
“The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said: "You are one brave young man." And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.” ThinkingMenWorldFirstsWellsLittlesSaidBigsRealityEyeYoungBitsMonthsMetsTaxesLittle BitBraveMeetingsWesternPlanningMinistersYoung ManFlatsPrimePrime MinisterWestern WorldAdmirerMiltonBig EyesFlat Tax Author:Mart Laar
“The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.” IfsWayTryingYearsBodyKidsBitsSidesHurtStepsGoneTaughtMetsCoachesTendenciesChairsPlatesRight WayStadiumsHurt MePitchingFooledMinnesotaTimerOld Timers Author:Bert Blyleven