"There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place."

-- Ian Frazier

#Ideas Quotes #Heroic Quotes #Middle Quotes

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”

Source : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (2008). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.105, New Directions Publishing
“You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.”
“Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.”
“Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love.”
“Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
“I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.”
“The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.”

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