"You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?"

-- Sally Hawkins

#Thinking Quotes #Doe Quotes #Capable Quotes

“Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life.”
“Life had its way of beating humbleness into a man.”
“Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.”
“When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to othersâ€”not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.”
“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.”
“All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.”
“[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.”
“Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.”

Source : Antonia White (1980). “Frost in May”

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