“I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.” PeopleGivingLittlesI CanPoliticalLife IsOpportunityAdvicePositionDown AndDefeatBurdenOfficialsPolitical Life Author:Richard M. Nixon
“Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.” MomentsProblemLife IsClearVictoryDefeatVagueMixturesAmbiguityAmbiguousUnsolved Problems Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.” Life IsTurnsWorstVictoryDefeatFullnessHazardsFullness Of Life Book:The Greek way ; The Roman way Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way
“Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.” KnowsMenHumansLittlesSeemsLife IsOrderLossEffortProgressConditionsPeriodsMassErrorsDefeatDisasterRuinsTriumphIndifferenceDisorderHuman ConditionCatastropheMonstrousFelicityProdigies Book:Memoirs of Hadrian Source: Memoirs of Hadrian