"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life."

-- Walter Inglis Anderson

#Attitude Quotes #Character Quotes #Quality Quotes

“I'm from Hollywood, I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.”
“Anything can happen and it probably will.”
“I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear.”
“The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.”

Source : John Joseph Craven, Jefferson Davis, Edward K. Eckert (1987). “"Fiction Distorting Fact": The Prison Life, Annotated by Jefferson Davis”, p.19, Mercer University Press
“A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.”
“How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.”

Source : Karl Rahner (1965). “Encounters with silence”

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