"When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas."

-- Harriet Martineau

#Sports Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.”
“But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it ...”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.146, Open Road Media
“I love the Valley. There's no attitude.”
“Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.”
“I'm not somebody who throws myself out in front of things.”
“I love nyc. It's the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.”
“My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing”

Source : Song: Kno the Meaning, 2015
“Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism, the fraying of the social fabric and the rise of people who are so individualistic in their outlook that they have no real understanding of how to knit others together and look after the common good.”

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