"You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs."

-- Maximilien Robespierre

“Are we going to give up, or are we going to be the kind of people who stand up and do what it takes, even if we don't feel like doing it?”

Source : Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.22, Penguin
“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”

Source : Robert Browning (1899). “Poetical Works”
“Nicky Egan has the finesse of Bonnie Raitt merged with the primal force of Janis Joplin. It is a rare combination. Her passion is a joy to behold - and her talent is undeniable. She belongs in any conversation about great contemporary female soul singers. If you're up for a revelatory evening, then put her high on your list.”
“But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.”
“The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.”
“Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.”
“Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as eye-witnesses that there is no country in the world where law and order are better maintained than in present-day Germany.Â That there is no country in the world where person and property are held in better respect than in our own, but that there is perhaps also no country in the word where a more rigorous fight is put up against those who believe that they are free to let loose their lower instincts to the detriment of their fellow-beings.”

Source : "Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan Author, Comes Out As Gay To Challenge Homophobic Laws", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.
“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”

Source : "Quotable Quotes". Reader's Digest, p.144, March 31, 1997.

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