Richard Levin Quotes
Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
-
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
-
I don't like it when people say, 'You're 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.' For me, dressing is about attitude, not age.
-
Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.
-
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
-
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
-
We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.
-
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
-
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
-
Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it.
-
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
-
If you don't have any haters, you're not that gifted.
-
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
-
When you are close allies and good friends, like Denmark and the U.S. are, there should also be room for disagreements along the way.
-
This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence.
-
We are focused on managing what is under our control.
-
Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.
-
My mom does all the grocery shopping.
-
There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic? Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.
-
Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
