"Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living."

-- Claude Adrien Helvetius

#Order Quotes #Envy Quotes #Honor Quotes

“I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part,”
“Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.”
“The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.”

Source : Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.12, ICS Publications
“I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.”
“I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored”
“Every memorial in its time has a different goal.”
“Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer.”
“The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.”

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