Harry Graf Kessler Quotes

What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.

Harry Graf Kessler

Harry Graf Kessler

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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.

Viet D. Dinh
- Law
- Lawyer
- Questions
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

Warren Kole
- Up
- Problem
- Proud
I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

Dambisa Moyo
- Important
- Why
- Better
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

Quentin Blake
- Think
- Balance
- Birds
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

Ian Somerhalder
- Want
- Way
- Story
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

Ferran Adria
- Time
- Risk
- Failure