"I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it."

-- Alex Flinn

#People Quotes #Making Friends Quotes #Shy Quotes

“Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.”
“Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.”

Source : George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”
“I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.”
“It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical beauty is of a rather different kind. I should say perhaps it is of a completely different kind and transcends these personal factors. It is the same in all countries and at all periods of time.”
“An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Feb 22, 2010
“I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner”

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