"I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter."

-- Ruth Behar

#Fear Quotes #Needs Quotes #Gutters Quotes

“I am still nervous every show. Not in the "Wow, I'm scared, I can't go on nervous," but the "I really want to do a good job and the give the audience a great show" kind of nervous. Oh, yes, the nerves are there, but I let them push me instead of holding me back.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.”
“Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since”
“I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.”
“Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.”
“To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.”
“Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mitsunari Ishida". Video Game "Samurai Warriors", 2004.
“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”

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