"Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you."

-- Linda Hirshman

#Revenge Quotes #Battle Quotes #Ladders Quotes

“Going onstage without my primary instrument is like being a guitarist and going up onstage with no guitar waiting for you. What do you do? That's why performance is painful for me, because I feel like I am always in a strange place with a bit of a handicap.”
“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”

Source : Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2014). “The Art of Being Alive - Revisited (Annotated): Success Through Thought”, p.24, BookBaby
“Everything solid was first an idea.”
“What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.”
“Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from.”
“The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.”
“So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.”
“Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if youâ€™ve come to mow its lawns.”

Source : David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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