"We all become what we pretend to be."

-- Patrick Rothfuss

“Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.”
“there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant things must be more or less a humbug.”

Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”
“Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.”

Source : William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”
“There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.”
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
“I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.”

Source : "Christopher Lee recorded an incredible cover of 'My Way' - let's get it in the charts" by Simon Reynolds, www.digitalspy.com. June 12, 2015.
“Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.”
“I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.”

Source : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (2015). “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891”, p.252, U of Nebraska Press

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