"When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long.""

-- Bernard Baruch

#Two Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Long Quotes

“Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.”

Source : Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”
“A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive.”

Source : "NCAA Play of the Day, 6/25" by Bill Barnwell, www.ign.com. June 25, 2008.
“I'm a decent man who exports flowers.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.”
“You will never ever be successful until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.”
“Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.”
“When I hear my favorite songwriters write about things they clearly have not experienced, like "Isis" by Bob Dylan or a lot of Bruce Springsteen songs or something like that, I'm always like, "Man, how do I tap into that?" Every time I tried to do something that wasn't autobiographical I felt pretty phony.”
“We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'”

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