Edith Wharton Quotes
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton
Quotes to Explore
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
Sadhu Vaswani
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
Abigail Washburn
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
Ed Koch
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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In the end, life is wonderful but nonetheless a series of trade offs, especially between business/professional endeavours and family/community.
Patrick Pichette
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Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!
David Cohen
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That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.
Mark Morris
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For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.
D. H. Lawrence
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Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.
Bethany Hamilton
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton
