"There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story."

-- Susanna Hoffs

#Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes #Said Quotes

“I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.”
“Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations.”
“I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.”
“Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution.”
“I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.”
“We [with Alix MacKenzie] had decided we needed further training, and certainly Leach was the one we turned to. So we went to England this summer and we took examples of our work along with us and showed them to Bernard Leach and told him what we were trying to do. And of course he took one look at our work and he said - very quickly he said, "I'm sorry, we're full up," and this was his way of politely saying, you just don't make the cut.”
“I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne, “I Meant To Do My Work To-Day”
“I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.”

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