"If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success."

-- Robert Orben

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.”
“A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.”
“My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.”
“The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.”

Source : Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage
“A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.”
“If He isn't Lord of all, He isn't Lord at all.”
“In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.”
“I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.”

Source : "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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