"To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life."

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Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.359, tredition

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#Giving Quotes #Messages Quotes #Without Hope Quotes

“I, you know, am all over the place â€” every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. â€¦ I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,â€™ then I was bored with it, so I moved on.”
“I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.”
“Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.”
“(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.”

Source : "Disgrace". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2000.
“If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.”
“No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.”
“You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.”
“Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.”

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