"If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully."

-- Maya Angelou

#Would Be Quotes #Looks Quotes #Wisest Quotes

“I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.”
“I think the hardest part of being in the band and trying to make it is waiting, you know? I think, to be fair, if we would have gotten a big break early on, it would have been wasted on us. All of that perseverance you often learn by failing. We went from barely being able to book anywhere to being nominated for Grammys. It's a snowball effect that happens to a lot of bands. I think the hardest part is having a side job: bussing tables, bartending, and waiting tables to make ends meet. Sometimes they are really worth doing, because one day things might actually work out in your favor.”
“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”
“Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.”

Source : "Address to the Holy Father". "The cultural values of science", The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Scripta Varia 105, page xiv, November 8-11, 2002.
“My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit.”
“All glory comes from daring to begin.”

Source : Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”
“While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.”

Source : "The Soviet Colossus : History and Aftermath" by Michael Kort, (p. 172), 2001.
“The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.”

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