"If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done."

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Source : Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”

Gertrude Lawrence

#Determination Quotes #Done Quotes #Taught Quotes

“It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.”

Source : Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959). “A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ”
“I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.”
“In essence, the stock market represents three separate categories of business. They are, adjusted for inflation, those with shrinking intrinsic value, those with approximately stable intrinsic value, and those with steadily growing intrinsic value. The preference, always, would be to buy a long-term franchise at a substantial discount from growing intrinsic value.”
“When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.”
“I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.”

Source : Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.304, Penguin
“Tears are the summer showers to the soul.”
“The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.”
“Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.”

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