"All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too."

-- Ada Leverson

#Talking Quotes #People Quotes #May Quotes

“May Your Swords Stay Sharp!" - Lan Pendragon”
“If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.”
“My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!”
“Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.”
“The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.”

Source : Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.229, W. W. Norton & Company
“Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.”

Source : Quoted in Proclus, Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elementa
“I think I understand that religious faith which makes the holy brave and strong; my strength is just somewhere else--it's in myself...I do not fear what may await me, though I'm equally confident that nothing awaits.”

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