"Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water," the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him."

-- Megan Whalen Turner

#Thinking Quotes #Water Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.”
“So many women around the world in so many different career paths and places are expected to be perfect and I know that it sounds clichÃ©, but none of us are.”

Source : "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.
“I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?”

Source : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).
“I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“There were three options [in Allied], which were for [Bred Pitt] to shoot [Marion Cotillard], for them to escape, or for her to pull the trigger, which is a heroic act to spare him. When I was thinking about how it would end, a long time ago, I think I tried each of them to see, but two of them did not work.”
“I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.”
“People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.”

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