"in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity."

-- Abraham Lincoln

#Responsibility Quotes #Men Quotes #Eternity Quotes

“I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)”
“I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.”
“I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.”
“I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”

Source : Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.153, Penguin
“There are two types of people: you have people that like psychological horror and you have those that like everything in their face.”
“I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the worst public schools in Baltimore, with kids most people would write off because of their backgrounds. But, when I set high expectations, at the end of the day, these kids went from scoring at the bottom on standardized tests, to scoring at the top, despite their unfortunate circumstances.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.”
“It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining”

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