"To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness."

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Source : "Still More of Who Said That?". Book by Renie Gee, 1981.

Peter Ustinov

#Wise Quotes #Gentle Quotes #Portions Quotes

“Limitation is the condition of our lives. What matters â€” what allows us to reach beyond ourselves, as we are, and push at the boundaries of our ability â€” is that we continue. But then everything depends on how we practice, what we practice.”

Source : Glenn Kurtz (2008). “Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music”, p.241, Vintage
“There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency... You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.”
“Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.”
“If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.”
“I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.”
“Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.”
“During my campaign, I had come across a small number of (mostly) young men, who had strongly racist views. They told me they would only vote for a party that was willing to get rid of black and coloured people from this country. What struck me as strange is that they weren't bothered about the thousands of white Europeans arriving from Central and Eastern Europe.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“I took his suggestion to heart and went from a "know-it-all" to a "learn-it-all."”

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