"Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world."

-- Helen Fisher

#World Quotes #Modern Quotes #Turns Quotes

“British women can't cook.”
“We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.”
“As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored" "I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft.”
“A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it. . . . A friend is not a friend unless you defend him.”
“A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew....”
“Ten decimal places of Ï€ are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimal places would give the circumference of the visible universe to a quantity imperceptible to the most powerful microscope.”
“People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.”
“Failure's still something I can say I've achieved”

Source : Song: I've Got What It Takes, 2013

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