"Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny."

-- Lydia M. Child

#Destiny Quotes #Battle Quotes #Doe Quotes

“They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.”

Source : Patricia Highsmith (1999). “Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game”, Random House, Inc.
“Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny.”
“Science is given almost no visibility in the media. If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to the conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.”
“You are not you, you are just reflections, you are reflections of everything that you think you know, everything that you have been taught.”
“Smiles, like humor, are the most serious and complex forms of communication used by human beings.”
“I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.”
“I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.”

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