"For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?"

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Source : Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.244, Vintage

Kazuo Ishiguro

#People Quotes #Forever Quotes #Advice Quotes

“woman's cause is one and universal ...”
“There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.”

Source : "Nashville Gathers to remember Chet Atkins, 'Mr. Guitar'" by Michael Gray, www.mtv.com. July 02, 2001.
“When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.”
“You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.”
“I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place.”
“Ron Atkinson was a firefighter. He came in and he stabled the club”
“The only way cheese is dessert is when it's followed by the word cake.”

Source : Michele Gorman (2010). “Single in the City”, p.138, Penguin UK
“True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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