Quotes July 11, 2024

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake – 1757-1827 – Poet-Painter-Printmaker
 
 
 
 
Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?
Jennifer Egan,
writer, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient
 
 
 
 
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result … His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
Nikola Tesla
 
 
 
 
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
 
 
 
“Change, by its very nature, is threatening but it is also often productive.”
Betty Ford
 
 
 
 
“The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest… It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.”
Lady Bird Johnson
 
 
 
 
“We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?”
Tom Hanks