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“Things do not happen, we must make them happen”
Source : Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.726, Pan Macmillan
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“Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.”
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“All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!”
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“Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.”
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“Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise guru will not attempt to wake people up. I hope I'm going to be wise here and make no attempt whatsoever to wake you up if you are asleep. It is really none of my business, even though I say to you at times, "Wake up!" My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it fine; if you don't, too bad! As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens."”
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“The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.”
Source : Alexandra Bracken (2016). “Never Fade”, p.553, Hachette UK
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“When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.”
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“music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.”
Source : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Francaise, a Novel”, Knopf Canada
