"It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others."

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Source : Orson Scott Card (2003). “Seventh Son: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.198, Macmillan

Orson Scott Card

#Men Quotes #Blame Quotes #Weak Quotes

“My parents didn't overfeed me, nor did they make an issue of it. That's when things go wrong. It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin.”
“The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.”

Source : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press
“Itâ€™s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.”
“The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached, but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of who you are is yours already. It is already presentâ€¦”
“Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.”
“Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.”
“I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.”
“Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.”

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