"The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities."

-- Wilfrid Sheed

#Maturity Quotes #Males Quotes #Exhausted Quotes

“Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in life. I feel that over years of endurance, hard work and perseverance of determination and conviction, of claiming our rights to stay alive, to be free and to be ourselves, of fighting the biggest wars as much as the smaller ones, our will can indeed move mountains for us.”

Source : Joumana Haddad (2011). “I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman”, p.62, Chicago Review Press
“The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.”
“I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.”
“Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.”
“Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.”

Source : Karen Hawkins (2010). “One Night in Scotland”, p.60, Simon and Schuster
“I always knew the woman I wanted to be.”
“There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.”
“I'm happy with the amount of success I've achieved. I feel like I'm getting better every day and I'm always learning. I don't take anything for granted and I've gained a deeper perspective on things.”

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