"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."

-- Donna Tartt

#Reality Quotes #Lessons Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.”

Source : "Gary Lineker: 'After football, you have to make yourself interesting'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2011.
“Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.”
“Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.”
“I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.”
“Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate.”
“If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 09, 2017
“Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.”
“As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul ...”

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