"The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!"

-- M. E. W. Sherwood

#Lying Quotes #Dirty Quotes #Clothes Quotes

“Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.”
“...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.51, Granta Books
“If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.”
“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”
“It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.”
“Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.”
“Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.”
“Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory”

You may also like: