"The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story..."

-- Maya Angelou

#Inspiring Quotes #Loving Life Quotes #Thoughtful Quotes

“But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions of all the other stars; and these new planets move about another very large star [Jupiter] like Venus and Mercury, and perchance the other known planets, move about the Sun. As soon as this tract, which I shall send to all the philosophers and mathematicians as an announcement, is finished, I shall send a copy to the Most Serene Grand Duke, together with an excellent spyglass, so that he can verify all these truths.”
“Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.”

Source : "Focus on the good news in the Palestinian-Israeli standoff" by Julia Bacha, www.cnn.com. September 18, 2011.
“Why not show off if you've got something to show?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.”
“Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.”
“But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.”
“It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years for career and personal growth. And so you're not encouraged to get pregnant in your 20s. But the 30s are when the biology kind of has you by the ovaries, so to speak.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islandersâ€¦”

Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.353, Penguin

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