"Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it."

-- Sophie Swetchine

#Ambition Quotes #Character Quotes #Mark Quotes

“I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.”
“Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.”
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
“I'm not a feminist at all.”
“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.”

Source : Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.38, Courier Corporation
“Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.”
“I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.”
“A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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