"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Heart Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“I look at how we got beat and I thought the hustle points and the energy points were all gauged through offensive rebounds. I thought in the second half they got so many second-chance opportunities they could really run. It just seemed like they were going up our guys' backs. When you don't get any offensive rebounds and they start going the other team's way, it's almost like a snowball effect.”
“There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they dont dread... Im very lucky.”
“About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.”
“Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?”

Source : Charles Lindbergh, “Untitled”
“This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.”

Source : "The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1961.
“We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.”
“If you want someone to believe in you, believe in others.”
“Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?”

Source : "Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: ‘Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration’". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.

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