"It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty."

-- Bill Vaughan

#Firsts Quotes #Modesty Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.”
“Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.”
“Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.”

Source : Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167
“Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment...”
“Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.”
“Death is the gate of life.”
“The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong”
“When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.”

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