Quotes About Fireside Chats

#1. An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Anonymous

#2. In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

Anselm Kiefer

#4. This added element can only be the concept that represents the intuition as a suitable subject for one form of judgment rather than another

Anonymous

#5. There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

Albert Einstein

#6. To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.

Laurence Shames

#7. Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes.

Mervyn Peake

#8. I love you, Trinity, I always have and I always will. Never, ever forget that.

Madeline Sheehan

#9. Technology is the result of antifragility, exploited by risk-takers in the form of tinkering and trial and error, with nerd-driven design confined to the backstage.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#10. I don't keep things safe. I used to. Perhaps. I can't keep all the plates spinning. I drop some." ... "Well, that is always the risk, if you're a plate, isn't it? If you want to be spun, then you must accept the possibility of being broken.

Paul Cornell

#11. You pulled one story from your head, and another story popped up in its place, like tissues from a box.

Eileen Pollack

#12. Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight the Great Depression with the same resolve he would muster against a foreign foe, were aimed at reassuring Americans.

Christina Romer