“When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns.” IfsKindMightSpiritOpportunityFireObjectsReadyHigherCircumstancesApproachAdvantagePrejudiceRegardSticksHandleFlamesDrySovereignRobustPreconceptionsNew OpportunityHotter Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.” LevelsObjectsOrdinarySticksEnvyStrikesLightningFelicity Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.” WellsKindMayWholeHandsEyeAbleViewsObjectsSucceedAimDistanceSticksSelfishCommandHorizonCunningDiscretion Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.” KnowsWayMindPersonsDoeEndsDoneGivenObjectsCircumstancesBeatsDifficultySticksExcuseAccomplish Book:Table talk Source: Table talk
“My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.” IfsI CanLibertyObjectsSticksBlowEntertainmentStrikesMotion Pictures Author:John Wayne
“They think I'm silly. I do silly things. I fall down and run into things. I talk to inanimate objects. I'll hold a pickup stick to my ear and say, "What? What's that? I can't hear you” ThinkingI CanRunningFallObjectsEarsDown AndSticksSillyFalling DownSilly ThingsPickupsInanimate Objects Author:Stephen Colbert