"I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it."

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Source : Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: Three Exciting Novels”

Ross Macdonald

#Hands Quotes #Giving Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.”

Source : Barbara Ann Kipfer (2009). “863 Buddhist Ways to Conquer Life's Little Challenges”, p.112, Ulysses Press
“I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.”
“I'm 18! It feels great to be legal!”
“Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.”
“I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.”
“Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.”
“Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.”
“The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss”

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