"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Character Quotes #Personality Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete”

Source : John Clare (2015). “Poems Chiefly from Manuscript”, p.268, The Floating Press
“The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.”
“When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
“A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.”
“Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.”
“The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. There is sleight of hand in photography... you make the viewer think he's seeing everything while at the same time you make him realize he's not. I try to make my pictures seem reasonable and then, at the last minute, pull the rug from beneath the viewer's feet, very gently so there's a little thrill.”
“We'll have all the best of this and Heaven too, the best of two Worlds!-Heaven now and Heaven to come!”

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