"Trivial losses often prove great gains."

-- Ovid

#Loss Quotes #Gains Quotes #Prove Quotes

“I love heels... whoever created heels is amazing!”

Source : "Katie Cassidy Dishes on Gossip Girl". Interview with Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. October 20, 2010.
“Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubbornness that defies chaos and disillusionment.”
“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”

Source : Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Texas Legislature in Austin (June 13, 1951) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 175), June 14, 2000.
“I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.”
“Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press
“Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.”
“There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.”

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