"With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable."

-- Lupita Nyong'o

#Responsibility Quotes #Size Quotes #Existence Quotes

“Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.”
“There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.”
“Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.”

Source : Marietta Holley (1875). “My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves Or the Book”, p.28
“All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.”

Source : Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.33, Harvard University Press
“Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.”
“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.”
“America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago”
“People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.”

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