“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
About his daughter and party MP Kanimozhi I am extremely happy, says Karunanidhi http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2668360.ece
“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist
Musings of Princess Meredith about her aunt, Queen Andais; p. 357
Merry Gentry series, A Stroke of Midnight (2005)
“Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Subterranean Homesick Blues
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Laurie Notaro American writer
Source: There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble
Isoroku Yamamoto (1884–1943) Japanese Marshal Admiral
Statement to Japanese cabinet minister Shigeharu Matsumoto and Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoe, as quoted in Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan (1985) by Ronald Spector. This remark would later prove prophetic; precisely six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy would suffer a major defeat at the Battle of Midway, from which it never recovered.
Liu Shaoqi (1898–1969) 2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898-1969)
Source: "How to Be a Good Communist - 7. Examples of Wrong Ideology in the Party" https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1939/how-to-be/ch07.htm (July 1939)