"A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful."

-- George Eliot

#Heart Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Proud Quotes

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
“The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?”
“Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.”
“Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 20, 2014
“The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.”
“If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.”
“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.”
“The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.”

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