"Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness."

-- Jean Webster

#Beautiful Quotes #Disappointment Quotes #Character Quotes

“A heavenly society is a harmony of many.”
“Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.”
“When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.”

Source : "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book II, ch. 5), 1688.
“I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company”
“You cannot teach ambition.”
“That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you'll be in tune. In other words, it's never thought good to be flat. It means you can't get to the tone.”
“Insults are the business of the court.”
“Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.”

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