Whitehall Square Quotes

#1. The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#2. I'm straight. I. Love. Men. I love men.

Janina Gavankar

#3. If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Rabindranath Tagore

#4. Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Helen Gurley Brown

#5. One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

Andrew Mason

#6. Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

C.S. Forester

#7. There is no right life in the wrong one.

Theodor W. Adorno

#8. One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

Orison Swett Marden

#9. If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

Zig Ziglar

#10. All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.

Robert Macfarlane

#11. [W]e are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us.

Rafael Sabatini

#12. You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.

Napoleon Hill

#13. Before, when I looked at her, she was just the girl who as experiencing this weird phenomenon with me. Now when I look at her, she's the girl I've apparently made love to for a while. The girl I apparently still love. I just wish I could remember what it's supposed to feel like.

Colleen Hoover

#14. Loss is an inevitable part of change.

Sharon Weil