"That's what character is, it's in the trying."

-- Eric Taylor

#Character Quotes #Trying Quotes

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.424, Vintage
“For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith”
“I cannot give it to you, so try to watch me.”
“My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.”
“The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.”
“Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."”
“I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.”

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