"Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was."

-- Sarah Kay

#War Quotes #Winning Quotes #Hands Quotes

“The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.”

Source : "Theodore Zeldin - historian, philosopher". History Today, July 1999.
“Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us contains both properties. Mixed up in our mind, these properties are confused and we do not have a proper image of reality.”

Source : Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub
“It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.”
“Hate can only exist where people refuse to speak out against it.”
“Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.”

Source : Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.270, Simon and Schuster
“I have ALWAYS wanted to write - I was the seven-year old entering local library poetry contests, and I recently found my eighth-grade yearbook when we moved, and I had listed "WRITER" as my future occupation. It's always been something I've been hungry to do, but I think the more practical side of me (encouraged by the more practical sides of my parents of course) shied away from pursuing a career in creative writing, in favor of something a little "safer" like law.”
“The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies”
“It is not the strong one that wins, the one that wins is strong.”

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