"I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle."

-- Philippa Gregory

#Ambition Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Insane Quotes

“I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing”
“There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.”
“Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.”
“Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.”
“History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”

Source : Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.322, Penguin
“My therapist said to me 'OK, let's just say your daughters do end up marrying someone like him. When the abuse starts they'll think 'Mom stayed, I suppose that's the right thing to do.' That's when I realized that I was setting a frightening example.”
“When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative.”
“I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.”

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