Sunday, 5 June 2011

Activity 12

Quotes

Read the quotes from famous people belonging to different areas or having quite different jobs or positions. Choose one that you like and expand it in an article. In case you don’t know the person who said what you’re writing about, make a quick research on the internet. It may help understanding his/her ideas.


Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. (Charles Baudelaire)

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
(Napoleon Bonaparte)


All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?  (Buddha)


As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. (Julius Caesar)


A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. (Albert Einstein)


A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. (William Shakespeare)

Business today consists in persuading crowds.
(T. S. Eliot)

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. (William Blake)

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
(Woody Allen)

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
(Pablo Picasso)

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? (Frida Kahlo)


Taken from: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes