"I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate."

-- Edmund Hillary

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Want Quotes

“My kids! They run so hot and cold. One minute, I am in complete control and feeling like Supermom, then the next minute, my two-year-old is having a tantrum in line at the supermarket and is inconsolable, and I feel so helpless and I want to crawl in a hole.”

Source : "RHOBH’s Kristen Taekman: Parenting, Collaborating, Evolving". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. Youâ€™re only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.”

Source : "Casey Kasem, voice of Shaggy in Scooby Doo, dies on Father's Day at 82" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2014.
“At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that . . . liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing”
“Wherever you go, there’s your teacher.”
“I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.256, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
“The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.”

Source : Seamus Heaney (2014). “Field Work: Poems”, p.23, Macmillan
“I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels”

Source : Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.320, Faber & Faber
“Courage is the antidote to danger.”

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