"an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet."

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Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”

Ada Leverson

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.”
“The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.”
“When a man walks in the fear of God he knows no fear, even if he were to be surrounded by wicked men. He has the fear of God within him and wears the invincible armor of faith. This makes him strong and able to take on anything, even things which seem difficult or impossible to most people. Such a man is like a giant surrounded by monkeys, or a roaring lion among dogs and foxes. He goes forward trusting in the Lord and the constancy of his will to strike and paralyze his foes. He wields the blazing club of the Word in wisdom.”

Source : Saint Symeon (the New Theologian), Paul McGuckin (1982). “The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses”
“People forget what they want to forget.”
“Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs seldom do. When a stock or mutual fund is up 30%, sell one-quarter of your position.”
“I kind of came from the Townes Van Zandt school of throwing yourself off a cliff and then that's what you write about, and that rule number one of creative writing is you have to have conflict. But if you write about yourself mostly, then if you don't have conflict, then you create it. And the older I get, the more I realize that that's not a very smart way to do this. Not to say I'm the most self destructive person on earth, but it's easy to do.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“The whole world population rests on women. You have to start with the woman. And the woman will make her own decisions. If you want to have five or ten children, fine. You can have big families or small families, but you have the family you feel you can afford or feed. In China the one - child policy is already finished - on its way out because the economic conditions end up producing the same effect. If people want an expensive flat in a place like Shanghai, you can't have more than one child or two.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

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