"I wish I wasn't so fragile / 'Cos I know that I'm not easy to handle"

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Schuyler Fisk

#Wish Quotes #Easy Quotes #Handle Quotes

“Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.”
“In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.”
“There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.”
“On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of spending further sums of money on it. I replied, entering fully into the matter, and giving my opinion that it was worthless.”
“In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
“Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.”
“Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.”

Source : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.7, Litres
“It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.”

Source : "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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