"How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#May Quotes #Anticipation Quotes #End Of Life Quotes

“So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.”
“[Trump's worldview states] that, for example, women are incompetent as compared to men in business settings. That women in general are intellectually inferior and have to make up for that by using their sexuality to get ahead. That women of color are angry, irrational, lazy, and always ready to get into a fight for no reason. That men in the workplace can say incredibly racist and sexist things, and as long as they make more money than their competitors, the racist and sexist things they say and do are totally acceptable.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.”
“We are the change we have been waiting for.”
“Hallo, Rabbit,â€ he said, â€œis that you?â€ "Letâ€™s pretend it isnâ€™t,â€ said Rabbit, â€œand see what happens.”
“Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.”
“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”

Source : Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.246, Bloomsbury Publishing

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