Pico Iyer Quotes
The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.
Pico Iyer
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn
I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
Quentin Bryce
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama
I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
Rachel Platten
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
Edward Bellamy
I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.
Harold Perrineau
The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.
Catherine O'Hara
Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
A.S.A. Harrison
I have never believed that the historian should seek to perpetuate the misapprehensions of the past, and it is true that we understand Beethoven today better than his contemporaries did, better, above all, than the generation that immediately followed him, including his own most important pupil, Karl Czerny.
Charles Rosen
The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.
Pico Iyer