"I am moved by the light."

-- Maurice Maeterlinck

#Light Quotes #Moved Quotes

“The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.”
“Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!”

Source : Elizabeth Akers Allen, “Rock Me To Sleep”
“Your problems with me are not my problems, those are your problems.”
“The trouble with giving advice is that others want to return the favor.”
“I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.”
“We have to get rid of excuses, no matter why you are the way you are, don't let it be an excuse to stay that way.”
“I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.”
“You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.”

Source : Josephine Humphreys (2000). “Rich in Love”, p.97, Penguin

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