"Great hopes make great men."

-- Thomas Fuller

#Inspirational Quotes #Positive Quotes #Hope Quotes

“In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.”
“Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from "useful" doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Theres a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isnt always pretty.”
“The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.”

Source : Song: The Flower That Shattered The Stone, Album: The Flower That Shattered The Stone
“Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.”
“I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.”

Source : "Watchtower Actor Aleks Paunovic: Getting out of his own way, and the importance of trying". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Everybody wants to have a goal - I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal. I can finally get to that goal. Then you get to that goal, and then you gotta get to another goal. But in between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed - and if you don't, you're a fool.”

Source : "THEATER; Sid Caesar: Ich Speaken German at Met". Interview, www.nytimes.com. 1987.
“Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go.”

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