"you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect."

-- Maria Edgeworth

#Thinking Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.”
“I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.”

Source : "Ian Rankin: 'I am, of course, a frustrated rock star'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.
“One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.”
“One of the perks of being a New Yorker cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.”
“You could call him," Wes suggests. "Why be a spectator in the game of love? Take charge. Don't wait around and let the boy call all the shots." "As cheesy as all of that sounds," Kimmie adds. "Cheese or not,I know what I'm talking about." He sulks. "I've lived it. I've learned it." Kimmie lets out a laugh. "With who,Romeo? That Wendy girl you paid to date you?" "Oh, and because I don't have a dating history as big as your mouth, it doesn't quite measure up?" "I hate to break this to you, but that isn't the only thing of yours that doesn't measure up." "Wouldn't you like to know?" He grins.”
“At the core of every child is an intact human.”
“Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just didn't like Fourier's ideas very much. He thought it was all too rigid and programmatic. He said, "Fourier had skipped no fact but one, namely life." He thought it was an inhumane system - the day is scheduled too precisely. He didn't think it would work, and he was right.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.”

Source : Jillian Michaels (2013). “Slim for Life: My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast, and Lasting Weight Loss”, p.3, Harmony

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