"The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom."

-- Phillis Wheatley

#Black History Quotes #Tasks Quotes #World Quotes

“In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.”
“I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.”
“Everyone has experienced alienation - at some point you go through a moment where you say: "I just want to be left alone." And what is the ultimate point of being alone? - it's dying, of course.”
“A woman's gifts will make room for her.”
“I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.”
“My heart was closed. Cold. I was self-conscious and cynical.”
“If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.”

Source : Mariel Hemingway, Bobby Williams (2013). “Running with Nature: Stepping Into the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.105, BookBaby
“The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.”

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