"We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making."

-- Terry Brooks

#Fake People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Tests Quotes

“I never wanted to get to a point in my life where I knew what was going to happen next. I felt like most people just couldn't wait until they found themselves settled down into a routine and they didn't have to think about the next day, or the next year, or the next decade because it was all planned out for them. I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life.”
“No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.”
“Speaking of the motto of the New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print:" It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy.”
“Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.”

Source : Gregory Maguire (2009). “A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years”, p.25, Harper Collins
“The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?”
“Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.”
“I am afraid I shall have to give up my trade; I am far too inert to keep up with organic chemistry, it is becoming too much for me, though I may boast of having contributed something to its development. The modern system of formulae is to me quite repulsive.”
“Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.”

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