"Hope. An emotion that always kept suckering me in, time after time, despite my supposed retirement from the assassin business. Hope. The one thing that always seemed to get me into more trouble than just killing people for money ever had. Ah, hope. Sometimes, I really hated it."

-- Jennifer Estep

#Retirement Quotes #People Quotes #Assassins Quotes

“None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.”
“If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution.”
“We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.”
“Boys ignored me. I never thought I was gorgeous.”
“I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.”
“One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.”
“Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.”

Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.118
“Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.”

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