"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

-- William James

#Birthday Quotes #Character Quotes #Age Quotes

“Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening." (Brigan)”
“In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake of a common nature. The incidental power ought to be strictly subordinate and limited to the end proposed to be obtained by the specified power. In other words, under the name of accomplishing one object which is specified, the power implied ought not to be made to embrace other objects, which are not specified in the constitution.”
“Never lower your target ; increase your actions.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 19, 2017
“We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.”
“I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.”
“When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!”
“When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.”
“All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.”

Source : "The Picket-Guard" l. 41 (1861) See Remarque 1

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