"It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them."

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Source : "Dustin Hoffman and me" by John Burnham Schwartz, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

John Burnham Schwartz

#Affinity Quotes #Certain Quotes #Recognise Quotes

“Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.”

Source : Jenni Rivera (2013). “Unbreakable: My Story, My Way”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.”
“To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration-she cannot be a simple, natural personality.”

Source : Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.92, University of Arkansas Press
“I think he was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous. (On Benitez)”
“When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.”
“You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”
“A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.”
“While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.”

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