"Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better."

-- Maya Angelou

#Life Quotes #Matter Quotes #Hoping For The Best Quotes

“Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.”
“The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.”
“It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.”
“In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance to confront the enemy directly, was a sign of weakness. The decision to confront the United States in 1963-1965 was a tacit recognition that Ho's approach had failed.”
“That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments of that knowledge on whose more elementary truths its wealth and rank depend, is a fact which is well deserving the attention of those who shall inquire into the causes that influence the progress of nations.”
“His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.”

Source : Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Charlie All Night”, p.87, HQN Books
“It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.”
“The character of a man is known from his conversations.”

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