“I'm not going to work for the sake of working. I'll work, if I'm extraordinarily lucky enough to continue having the same opportunities, but it will be based on whatever is there. If there's nothing around, then I'll go home and make carrot cake for awhile.” IfsEnoughHomeOpportunityLuckySakeCakeGoing To WorkCarrots Author:Carey Mulligan
“The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.” IfsFirstsWellsWarHomeAmericaLosesEnemyTroubleReturnLogicSightSakeFolksJustificationMomentumBack Home Book:Power Politics Source: Power Politics
“I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude.” WritingChildrenLittlesBookHomeRememberUsedTurnsPleasureWrittenAirGratitudePureKissingSakeCheerVersesRemember WhenNew Places Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846 Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If its a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.” IfsHomeMovingSacrificeOffersExcitingSakeScriptsMediocrityMoving AheadPersonal Time Author:Rani Mukerji