#Song Quotes #Loss Quotes #Hard Times Quotes
“Good friends don't have to visit each other every day.”
“All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference ... to stop assigning cause for my inability to the circumstances outside of myself and to be willing to have been that way, and to see that the fear of being a failure is a lot less important than the unique opportunity I have to make a difference.”
“Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time.”
Source : The Montreal Weekly Star, August 22, 1885.
“To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.”
“A well-chosen complication should give you choices. Juggling choices for your characters is what makes writing fun, after all. If you discover that you're struggling more than you ought to with a draft, perhaps you've run out of interesting choices, or have given yourself too few choices to begin with. Go back to the complication, fatten it up, and start over.”
“America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.”
“The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.”
Source : Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Bulfinch's Mythology”, p.384, Booklassic
“The marathon is like a bullfight.”
Emma Hewitt Singer-songwriter
John O'Callaghan Musician
