"It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards."

-- Georgiana Burne-Jones

#Trouble Quotes #Grudge Quotes #Pursuit Quotes

“Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them is in vain. If their cry be drowned by the noise of the world, they do not cease to exist. They must be answered.”
“Itâ€™s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.”
“Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. ... It is true that attempts at gliding had been made hundreds of years before him, and that in the nineteenth century, Cayley, Spencer, Wenham, Mouillard, and many others were reported to have made feeble attempts to glide, but their failures were so complete that nothing of value resulted.”
“The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!”
“You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.219, Egmont UK
“Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.”

Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.
“I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.”

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