"The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom."

-- James Clavell

#Years Quotes #Doe Quotes #Scarcity Quotes

“Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me”

Source : Gabriel Marcel (1998). “Gabriel Marcel's Perspectives on The Broken World”
“As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.”
“When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.”
“Right now, we're not a team. I think we're genuinely happy for each other when we're out there on the court. We've got to find new and different ways to support each other on the floor. The comfort zone that we've been in, we've got to change it a little bit. Everybody has onus on this team. It's easy for someone to say, 'I play only 10 minutes a game, so they're not talking about me.' But that 10 minutes is just as important.”
“We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.”

Source : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”
“How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?”

Source : Amy Tan (1992). “The Kitchen God's wife”, Thorndike Pr
“I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.”
“Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendours and bears likeness of you, Most High One.”

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